u/Iliketobeoutdoors

Today i received an email from Spotify notifying me of a privacy policy update. One of those massive policies that nobody has the desire or will to read because it is miles long. I did what I have started doing now, i copied the policy and pasted it into Claude.

I am frustrated and upset to learn that on a Spotify account that I PAY for, my usage location, duration, device, playlist, and all other relevant information is harvested and used!! I know darn well that if "you're not paying for something, then you are the product" - like FaceFuck and InstaBoner ... BUT with music, i feel violated! Music is something personal and intimate. To learn that whores at Spotify are tracking when, where, and what I am listening to in attempts to try and bludgeon me with more ads or learn more about me is downright frustrating. It feels to me like it is becoming too difficult to escape the extraction mechanisms of the "machine" we have built willingly in this digital era of mass pillaging and monitoring of everyone. If anyone has any ideas about how to fight back on this one or things that could be done alternatively to tell Spofiy to go F themselves while I keep my music, that would be great.

I am genuinely a huge fan of Claude, OpenAI and AI in general. I think these are amazing and fascinating tools! I've been using these AI tools for a little over 2 years now. I have found Claude works best when I pump and dump ALL of my content into one single thread, that way "it" knows more about "me". My hope moving forward, my dream for how this thing we call AI evolves ... I would LOVE it if "it" the tool, an aggregated reflection of "us" and what "we" collectively "know" for individual respective use were eventually turned inverted and the "tool" became an extension of "us" / "me" as I try to do work on the computer. Think each and every time you have to enter information about yourself, name, address, email, yada yada or every time you fill out a job application or health information, I think it would be nice if the tool were able to employ all the info it "knows" about me, on my behalf, when I point or ask. Big picture ... taxes would be a breeze and no TurboTax needed, no subscription for Word products needed, no dumbly clicking "accept" on Terms and Agreement forms; Claude or GPT would be one step ahead of "me" saying "no you dont want to accept that, or yeah, sure thats fine, just a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo." I think this whole AI craze is going to boil down to "it" being a complexity deconstruction vehicle for all of "us" at each and every junction where we're sold complexity, legalese, mountains of forms to read, or requests to do things like ... I buy a notebook from Target, the paper in the notebook is mine to use for the $0.99 spent. I buy a Windows notebook laptop for $500 and then have to pay $90439403546 per year for Word, the "paper" - I see AI being a welcomed mechanism as a Bullshit Bulldozer for all areas "we" had been getting hosed pre-AI tools and I hope that AI 2.0 is either a more enabled browsing mechanism employing AI tools with my info on my behalf or a totally overhauled operating system that optimizes the person and simplicity to help "you" get your stuff done and get off the computer quickly, vs mashing keys and clicking buttons to create "work" for the sake of "work"