General Discussion

I never say anything to an AI that could positively peg me as a hater of Trump, or capitalism, or give it any health secrets about myself or that would reflect badly on me as an employee. I absolutely ASSUME it's a giant surveillance apparatus and everything you say or ask could one day be used against me in some way.

I think its foolish to make any other presumption about them, because as I am pointing out once again here, the biggest problem with AI is the lack of proper regulations being laid down before it was widely rolled out. Which would've included, as you say, safeguards against them consuming non-public works in their training. Which YES, they could've done. Not necessarily 100% reliably (that much is true), but a hell of a lot more reliably than just doing nothing of the sort. And their products may have been less full-featured than what the Sam Altman's of the world felt was "critical", but TOO FREAKING BAD.