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7 products rated Last updated No vendor money
F 1 D 3 C 3

The Index

Highest risk first
F
Autonomous Tesla

Tesla Autopilot / FSD

A $15,000 promise of self-driving that's killed people and still calls itself 'Full Self-Driving.'

high risk
D
Chatbot OpenAI

ChatGPT

Knows more about you than your therapist. Reports to a company that wants to be God.

high risk
D
Chatbot Google

Google Gemini

Google already had all your data. Now it has a chatbot that can actually use it.

high risk
C
Creative Adobe New

Adobe Firefly

Trained on data it actually paid for, which is rarer than it should be. Getting back out of Adobe is the expensive part.

use with caution
C
Search Perplexity AI New

Perplexity

Cites its sources more carefully than any rival, and is being sued by a remarkable number of them.

use with caution
C
Assistant Microsoft

GitHub Copilot

Your AI pair programmer that learned to code by reading everyone else's code without asking.

use with caution

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