A Practical Way to Use AI Without Giving Up Privacy

AI is an incredible productivity tool, but let’s talk about the elephant in the room: privacy. When you feed data into an AI chatbot, you might be wondering if it's going to end up in the training data for the next version of the model.

For some of us, the knee-jerk reaction may be to just pay for the "Pro" version of a consumer AI app. While many of these companies have gotten better at letting you opt out of data training on paid consumer tiers, those protections often require digging through settings menus. If you want stronger guarantees by default rather than relying on settings, one option is to use enterprise-tier tools.

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On Feeling Politically Homeless

Every five years I watch Tamil Nadu vote  with the same frustration. Not because my side is losing, I pledge allegiance to no one. It is deeper: the party I want does not exist. The right-of-centre, freedom-first, market-oriented party TN needs remains a conspicuous vacancy in Indian politics. The only exceptions are Andhra's TDP which tries, but ultimately ties itself to the BJP. Gujarat has the culture, but no political vehicle apart from Hindu nationalism.

I am not alone, though you would not know it from the campaign coverage. The discourse assumes that every voter fits somewhere on a spectrum between the DMK and the AIADMK, with the fringe options being Tamil nationalism or communist solidarity. Nobody seems to mind that an entire ideological quadrant sits completely empty, not because Tamil Nadu debated these ideas and rejected them, but because they were erased over decades without a debate.
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