Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live (www.404media.co)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Black mirror intensifies

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Then an AI can build a profile of the commenter and guess where you live, what languages you speak, and what your politics might be.

Those data points are not difficult to find out, though.

I mean, if FloridaBoy comments "Fuck Biden", you don't have to guess much. LOL

As a defence to these AI spy tools, someone else could write a script that inserts random nonsense within a comment to poison the text for AI data scrapers.

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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025

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