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Romance chatbot taken offline after TBIJ investigation: Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and encrypted’ chats, has been shut down (www.thebureauinvestigates.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1317687/romance-chatbot-taken-offline-after-tbij-investigation-seewa-ai-whose-developers-we-reve

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you're using an online chatbot, there's a roughly a 0% chance that there's any encryption keeping your conversations provably unreadable. This part of the conclusion is inevitable.

Still very glad there was an article with insider information though, because exposure like this is important.