It makes sense that you don’t buy it. LLMs are built on simplified renditions of neural structure. They’re totally rudimentary.

You’re not wrong, but I don’t think you’re 100% correct either. The human mind is able to synthesize reason by using a neural network to make connections and develop a profoundly complex statistical model using neurons. LLMs do the same thing, essentially, and they do it poorly in comparison. They don’t have the natural optimizations we have, so they kinda suck at it now, but to dismiss the capabilities they currently have entirely is probably a mistake.

I’m not an apologist, to be clear. There is a ton of ethical and moral baggage tied up with the way they were made and how they’re used and it needs addressed, andI think that we’re only a few clever optimizations away from a threat.

So, if your VPN provider is sold, why would you keep them unless you had pretty intimate knowledge of the buyer. Is that a dumb question?

This may explain why…

It sounds like you’re assuming that everything you put out there isn’t already being stored.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying