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I mean, Google harvests data from search engine queries. I doubt that LLM queries honestly leak all that much more information.
The issue is broader, just that people have gotten really comfortable for paying for service by selling access to their data, and I don't think that that's necessarily a great idea. Like, I'm not sure that everyone's fully considered all the ways in which their data might potentially be correlated with other data at scale.
I don’t doubt it. Search engine queries are just like a one time short query and then you just click on what seems like what you’re looking for and continue from there.
LLMs conversations, on the other hand, go much deeper, exactly to what you’re interested in, clarifications etc.
Search engine companies are in the business of tying together users from session to another.