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Ask HN: Is writing without AI worse than sharing your medical records online?

3 points by amichail ↗ HN
Every word, sentence, and phrasing choice reveals more than just your thoughts. It can show your education, whether English is your first language, how much you’ve read, and even aspects of your intelligence.

So in a way, writing without AI on social media can be even more exposing than posting your medical records online.

What do you think?

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krapp
Your education, your language and your intelligence are not private. Your medical records are, and depending on where you live the exposure of your medical history can be dangerous to your life or freedom. So no. Not nearly the same, much less worse.

Do you use an AI when writing or commenting on HN?

ipaddr
You don't need AI to write as someone else.
treetalker
On the Internet no one knows you're a dog.
cvz
Do you write things that you intend other people read?

The value in that writing, one would assume, would include your education, culture, and intelligence.

rokoss21
False dichotomy. Medical records and writing style reveal different categories of information. Medical data: extremely sensitive, can enable discrimination/blackmail. Writing quirks: revealing but not dangerous in isolation.

The real question: who has access and what can they do with it? Using a local open-source model to polish your writing is fundamentally different from sending everything to a corporate server. Context matters more than the tool.