Archive - Privacat Insights

The Ladder to Nowhere: How OpenAI Plans to Learn Everything About You

ChatGPT Health is a small part of a much larger plan to learn everything about you. In this post, I talk about what's driving them and how they might…

Jan 25 • Privacat

18,000 words. Four Questions. Much Delegation. Little Guidance

The EDPB issued their much-anticipated Opinion on AI Models, and boy do I have some opinions. And bonus analysis (for paid subscribers!)

Dec 20, 2024 • Privacat

Privacy Disasters: A Depressingly Regular Series

A friend on Bluesky shared the Calmera app with me on Bluesky, and now I am raging internally.

Mar 19, 2024 • Privacat

I Built an AI-Powered Futures Forecasting Pipeline With Claude Code

Here's how I did it and what I learned. Plus, humor, cats, and link to the source code.

Jan 2 • Privacat

The Ladder to Nowhere, Part 2: OpenAI's Complete Picture of You

OpenAI is building a ladder to comprehensive surveillance. Each rung delivers value—ChatGPT, health tools, wearables, BCIs—while collecting everything…

Jan 27 • Privacat

How I Vibe-Coded Myself Into a Better Researcher

I improved on my AI-powered research assistant to handle the toil while I focus on the insights. Here's what I learned along the way.

Mar 17 • Privacat

How Big Tech Becomes Ungovernable

Big Tech companies like Google, SpaceX, and Meta aren't just monopolies—they're becoming ungovernable through tech extensivity. Why €4B in fines went…

Feb 17 • Privacat

Agentic AI Browsers are Privacy Disasters

Researchers expose the privacy disaster that is Agentic AI Browsers. I break it all down.

Nov 4, 2025 • Privacat

Dear Tech Companies: Please Stop Stepping on Your Own Dicks

Forcing users to decipher what you do with their data is a terrible idea.

Feb 1, 2025 • Privacat

Privacy Disasters: FaceHuggers Are Eating Your Skeets

This is a post about the current mishegoss related to Hugging Face and Bluesky's firehose, and how both companies are largely fucking over their users.

Dec 2, 2024 • Privacat

In Defense of Smart Weirdos: What I Learned at an AI Safety Law-a-Thon

I forgot just how much I miss that kind of crazy nerd energy.

Oct 28, 2025 • Privacat

Why I'm 78% Confident that the EU Will Reform the AI Act

... But probably not before August 2, 2026

Mar 25 • Privacat

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