I make a reasonable effort to preserve privacy - on my phone I use a privacy focused browser, turn off location services when I don't need them, I opted out of the AI Personal Assistant etc, although I haven't gone as far as subscribing to a VPN.
But the some of the AI Personal Assistant type features are very useful!
AI on your phone is a privacy nightmare but I'm starting to think we've lost the privacy battle and I may as well give in and start to incorporate AI tools and agents more fully into my online activities.
Do you use the AI agents/tools on your phone? What about your privacy in the age of AI? Do you have any rules or strategies for engaging with AI on your phone or in general?
What actually sounds useful?
I'm likely the exception but I just want my phone to make/receive phone calls and text messages. My phone via real time spell check is already leaking a lot of data to my wireless provider over ipsec and Google over HTTPS simultaneously even if spell check is disabled and I am not OK with that.