Reddit thread asks why so few worry about AI privacy as users hand over files, email and passwords
banica24 · reddit · 2026-09-05
A Reddit post laments how casually people share with AI: photos for editing, trauma and opinions, plus power users granting AI access to password managers, full file systems, email, calendars and texts via APIs.
The author describes their own privacy hygiene — aliases, no location, scrubbing documents, VPN, burner emails — citing the ChatGPT-conversations-indexed-by-Google incident, and worries future AI could build and sell personal profiles to advertisers or malicious actors.
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