If anything, companies have MORE to lose than individuals here. If ChatGPT can anticipate your corporate decisions, then it can front run you and steal your whole business.

This absolutely happens:

- Amazon watches for successful third party products, then releases clones under their “Amazon Basics” brand and crushes the original.

- Robinhood makes most of their money selling real-time activity data to market makers, ensuring that big financial firms win over retail investors every time.

If OpenAI manages to do this in the general case… well then the valuations start to make a lot more sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375477

> Introducing ChatGPT Pulse - Now ChatGPT can start the conversation

But it is overwhelming problem for most people. How to navigate the basic things people do, and not be surveilled? Be manipulated by adds that are too spot on?

They hate it.

But they already have enough stuff to deal with. Getting pure with the apps and sites isn’t where they want to spend time or personal social capital.

It is like asking fish to get out of the dirty sea.

With regard to the original article, it's well written as is another one by the same author: "How They Control You" [1]

The two topics are tightly connected when you consider the media angle. I would encourage the author to write about the two issues together from that angle.

[1] https://defragzone.substack.com/p/how-they-control-you