Alignment researcher Turn_Trout blasts AI assistants scraping private Signal chats without consent
Turn_Trout · x · 2026-10-16
Alignment researcher Alex Turner (TurnTrout) posts a PSA: letting your AI assistant scrape private chats — especially disappearing messages on Signal — without the other person's consent will make him seriously upset.
The attached article describes a growing consumer-tech trend of gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you: AI assistants like Meta's Muse now collect not just your data but information about friends, family, and old dating matches who never consented — a core third-party consent problem of the AI era.
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