<story><title>How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide</title><url>https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-stuff-an-opinionated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>What the article barely touches upon is that all currently available AIs-as-a-service&lt;p&gt;- permit themselves to store and use your inputs essentially as they see fit, for essentially any purpose&lt;p&gt;- have mechanisms designed to &amp;quot;prevent abuse&amp;quot;, without defining what that actually means&lt;p&gt;- are engineered to &amp;quot;keep you safe&amp;quot;, without stating clearly what they want to keep you safe from, and without any option to disable those so-called safeguards&lt;p&gt;- have been carefully tuned to align their outputs with the Upper Middle Class U.S. West Coast Tech Scene political zeitgeist of the day, and that is what you&amp;#x27;ll get from them, even if it is completely inappropriate in your own cultural environment.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Caveat emptor.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roseway4</author><text>Caveat emptor indeed. LLM-as-a-Service vendors know their customer and this customer’s needs. It’s not you. They’re selling an API to companies for whom safety and governance are part of the value proposition.&lt;p&gt;As others have mentioned, the data retention aspect is specifically &amp;#x2F;not&amp;#x2F; an issue with OpenAI (and other vendors’) APIs.&lt;p&gt;I don’t really get the saltiness so many on this site have towards LLM vendors. It just sounds entitled.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide</title><url>https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-stuff-an-opinionated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>What the article barely touches upon is that all currently available AIs-as-a-service&lt;p&gt;- permit themselves to store and use your inputs essentially as they see fit, for essentially any purpose&lt;p&gt;- have mechanisms designed to &amp;quot;prevent abuse&amp;quot;, without defining what that actually means&lt;p&gt;- are engineered to &amp;quot;keep you safe&amp;quot;, without stating clearly what they want to keep you safe from, and without any option to disable those so-called safeguards&lt;p&gt;- have been carefully tuned to align their outputs with the Upper Middle Class U.S. West Coast Tech Scene political zeitgeist of the day, and that is what you&amp;#x27;ll get from them, even if it is completely inappropriate in your own cultural environment.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Caveat emptor.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>What is a casual or nontechnical poweruser to do if the user wants to use LLM for work or education , without worry of the many points you mention?</text></comment>