“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.
Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I mean, better late than never, but this kind of realization should have come years ago for these people.
Years ago, it was already abundantly clear that these companies do not care about copyright, user privacy, environment, or, well, anything besides their profits, market share, and bullshit metrics like "engagement".
I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them had a book deal in the pipeline, to squeeze just a little more money out.
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