She gave ChatGPT her health data, dating life, and bank accounts. Was she wrong?
About Ina Fried
- Chief technology correspondent at Axios
- Co-authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter
- Hosts the Axios AI+ Summit series
- Founder and senior editor at Recode
- Decade covering tech at CNET
On Pioneers of AI, host Rana el Kaliouby talks with Axios chief technology correspondent Ina Fried about how much personal data people are handing over to ChatGPT. From health concerns to finances, the convenience is real, but so is the risk. Should you have to choose between privacy and better outcomes?
Transcript
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I use a whole bunch of AI tools, but ChatGPT is the one that has a lot of my personal data. So it has my dating sagas. It has health back and forth, a lot of my career aspirations. And just recently, they launched this finance feature where if you connected all your bank accounts, it can give you some thoughts on like your budget and how to be financially smarter. And I did that. My daughter, who's 23, was absolutely horrified. She was like, Mom, like what? Okay, open AI has a ton of data about me. Am I crazy? No, I think a lot of people are doing a lot of those things. I mean, if you connect your finances, and it finds out you have $1,000 a year in subscriptions you're not really using. So you do have to weigh like, how much value is it giving me in real time? If I'm sharing my health stuff, and it's finding something a doctor missed, you might not be able to even put a price tag on that. So I certainly don't fault you. They're also very hard things to compare, like, which do I value my privacy or my health? You probably in a good world shouldn't have to choose.
