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This post reminds me of when I encountered people that were surprised to learn that the owner of a Telegram bot can read all messages sent to the bot.

• ChatGTP 3y ago
  Not really, the chats could be stored locally in session data.
  • pavo-etc 3y ago
    If you use multiple devices they persist across all of them
    • ChatGTP 3y ago
      Obviously but I’m saying a trade off could be made?
  • joshspankit 3y ago
    I’m confused. The AI does not process input in-browser.
  • Terretta 3y ago
    You're incongruously confused about this for your username.
    • ChatGTP 3y ago
      Everyone misunderstood me, I couldn't be bothered fixing it. It's fun to hallucinate anyway.
• londons_explore 3y ago
  Part of being an engineer is making products that act the way the users want them to act. The fact that a Telegram bot owner can see everything the bot does is not what most users want/expect, and is therefore an engineering deficiency. Obviously fixing this deficiency isn't easy...
  • joshspankit 3y ago
    If users want something functionally impossible then that’s an education thing not a product thing. I fully expect that when I send text to a service that the provider can read all of it. Like of course they can, they have to process it.
    • londons_explore 3y ago
      A privacy protecting telegram bot isn't impossible. The code of the bot could be run locally on the users phone to generate the responses. Or telegram themselves could run a "bot server", where bot owners could upload code to, but not inspect logs of messages going to/from each user.
      • pixl97 3y ago
        >where bot owners could upload code to, but not inspect logs of messages going to/from each user. "Because, trust us" Honestly the moment a packet leaves your device privacy is gone.
      • amstan 3y ago
        > code of the bot could be run locally How is that closer to a "telegram bot" and not just a "phone app"?
  • Charidan 3y ago
    Yeah, PEBKAC bugs are the hardest to fix.