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Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

to save some folks a click:

the phenomenon is called the "halo effect", and the opposite is also the case and called the "horns effect" (ugly people/things getting more negative judgement based on appearance).

there's a LOT of research into these effects (for obvious reasons)...