>It's like going into a store and telling the clerk "please don't look at me, and when I leave please forget I ever came here". I feel these cute analogies mak

>It's like going into a store and telling the clerk "please don't look at me, and when I leave please forget I ever came here". I feel these cute analogies make the mistake of equating a human seeing and remembering you (maybe even writing your name down in a notebook) with a machine doing the same thing. There's significant qualitative differences, mainly that the machine has perfect memory and can effortlessly share and collect your information with other machines.