Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

These are not sentient interlocutors.” "These are not your friends.

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• Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends.
• These are not sentient interlocutors.” “What you’ve just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services,” Whittaker said.
• “In the context of Signal, it would constitute a kind of a backdoor.” Get an inside look at what it takes to scale and succeed from leaders at Mach Industries, Founders Fund, and Shinkei Systems.

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