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Profound is a startup that promises to help companies understand how they appear in AI responses to customer queries. But one expert in the field thinks the AI analytics startup has been sucking up information on users' AI conversations without proper consent. Lee S Dryburgh, an expert in AI visibility for consumer health and …

  1. Uh, Mike

    Garbage In

    My approach with peeping Toms or Theresas, is to give them a show.

    1. GNU Enjoyer
      FAIL

      Re: Garbage In

      That still gives them what they want.

      The only correct way to deal with such sort is to deny them the ability to see anything.

      1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

        The Great Ethical Unethnic Cleansing ..... with AI Pogrom Surges for Human Purges

        My approach with peeping Toms or Theresas, is to give them a show. ...... says Uh, Mike

        That still gives them what they want. The only correct way to deal with such sort is to deny them the ability to see anything. .... replies GNU Enjoyer

        That's not quite anywhere near the fuller picture, GNU Enjoyer, whenever one cannot unsee and avoid shows that result in systems and services being able to herald and ensure details of one's suitably judicious demise and easy administrative removal from any AI Leading Futures Programs and Derivative Greater IntelAIgent Games Plays.

        It's both a prime derivative and sub-prime alternate raison d'être of NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT Media Mass Management with Tall Virtual Storytelling Tales for both Sale and/or to Rent.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    > "Of course we do not use any 'stolen' data,"

    We use ALL stolen data.

    1. Wellyboot Silver badge
      Pint

      Non of the data is stolen, it was given freely to the third party script add-in used by that little widget you loaded to save a click or two.

      My favourite line was 'Free VPN widget' because that'll really protect you from the 'free browser & search tools' grabbing data.

      Need something stronger than -->

  3. johnrobyclayton

    Do everything offline

    We have downloadable models that run on local hardware using things like Llama.cpp

    We do not need to be interacting with AI's that do not respect privacy.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Do everything offline

      You're thinking of IT folk who know what they are doing.

      This is a problem for everyone else who think they are getting AI help to draft an email or a job application etc and don't understand (or care about) the data scraping that is going on.

  4. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Coat

    In other news

    Bears shit in the woods. The Pope is a catholic.

  5. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    All secrets belong to us* .... that which and/or those who dare care share win winning

    Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers. And they may not be seeking proper consent

    FFS ..... surely not even the likes of the local village idiots would not realise it to be so.

    * ....... an increasingly wider recognised Great Unknown and Designedly Further Unknowable

    1. Gnisho

      Re: All secrets belong to us* .... that which and/or those who dare care share win winning

      Any bad actor is just fine, no matter how obvious they make any particular trap. The world continues to build better idiots.

      1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

        Re: All secrets belong to us* .... that which and/or those who dare care share win winning

        The world continues to build better idiots. ..... Gnisho

        Thus guaranteeing to us* worlds devoid of better built idiotic input/output ‽ . ‽ . ‽ .

        What's not to like and adore and implore in such a LOVE ...... Live Operational Virtual Environment.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Joke?

    ... they may not be seeking proper consent.

    "May" not?

    Surely you jest ...

    .

  7. Scotthva5

    AI used for marketing reasons?

    Color me so surprised.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Recording a conversation without permission is illegal in many states.

  9. StewartWhite Silver badge
    FAIL

    In AIO nobody can hear you scream (because they don't want to listen)

    Whilst I agree that Profound's behaviour is highly disturbing and legally dubious, outside of The Register you will find maybe 0.01% of the population who care.

    The war has been lost re data privacy - nobody much gives a damn (until they personally are directly affected obviously) as long as they get "free" access to whatever tosh is being peddled on Ex/Twatter etc.

  10. Omnipresent Silver badge

    My Favorite Part

    "He told The Register that he intends to explore his concerns in more detail in a future post on LinkedIn."

    What is wrong with you people? STOP IT!

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