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Just listened to Naomi Brockwell talk about how AI is basically the perfect surveillance tool now.

Her take is very interesting: what if we could actually use AI against that?

Like instead of trying to stay hidden (which honestly feels impossible these days), what if AI could generate tons of fake, realistic data about us? Flood the system with so much artificial nonsense that our real profiles basically disappear in the noise.

Imagine thousands of AI versions of me browsing random sites, faking interests, triggering ads, making fake patterns. Wouldn’t that mess with the profiling systems?

How could this be achieved?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

This is like chaff, and I think it would work. But you would have to deal with the fact that whatever patterns it was showing you were doing "you would be doing".

I think there are other ways that AI can be used for privacy.

For example, did you know that you can be identified by how you type/speak online? what if you filtered everything you said through an LLM first, normalizing it. Takes away a fingerprinting option. Could use a pretty small local LLM model that could run on a modest local desktop...

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I did this with period trackers. I'm male and my wife and I would always chuckle when my period was about to start.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You would be able to do this for a short while but unless you can make an agent that's indistinguishable from you or you already have very bot-like traffic, they'd catch up pretty quickly. They aren't going to just let a trillion dollar industry die out because some bots are generating traffic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ok, got another one for ya based on some comments below. You have all the usual addons to block ads and such, but you create a sock-puppet identify, and use AI to "click" ads in the background (stolen from a comment) that align with that identity. You dont see the ads, but the traffic pattern supports the identity you are wearing.

So rather than random, its aligned with a fake identity.

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