{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"He Deleted the Account. They Found the Posts Anyway.","description":"A Maine candidate deleted his Reddit history before anyone went looking. People found it anyway. Craig explains the mechanism most people have never heard of: Reddit and Facebook both ran a firehose feed, selling everything posted the moment it was posted to anyone who could pay. Deleting your account doesn't reach those copies. They were never yours. Matt raises Europe's right to be forgotten. Craig's answer is that it doesn't really work \u2014 and what Google actually does is remove an item from its index so it stops being easy to find, while the page itself stays exactly where it was. He makes it concrete with his own site: decades of history, crawled by AI and search engines multiple times per hour. And a detail worth sitting with \u2014 part of why hard disk prices have climbed is that these companies are storing all of it long term. The NSA drove disk prices up on its own. Then the week's larger story. A run of studies over six to eight weeks says AI is not the win businesses expected. Microsoft, Amazon and Google have all pulled back their own initiatives. One Fortune 50 company gave employees access and spent half a billion dollars on tokens in a single month before pulling it. Craig returns to the 80% figure \u2014 most companies found it made things worse for employees, not better. Matt pushes back usefully: isn't this an overcorrection? It's obviously useful, people are doing things they could never do before. Craig agrees it settles, and adds the structural problem \u2014 you now need petabytes of data and a nuclear reactor's worth of electricity to compete, so this becomes a game for 800-pound gorillas. China's approach is to train its models on U.S. models. Also in this segment: what the forensic examination of everyone running for office does to a generation that grew up online, and where each of us draws the line on what we did when we were young. Free newsletter and Insider Sessions: CraigPeterson.com ","author_name":"Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity","author_url":"https:\/\/cptt.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"