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AI to make us more private? (lemmy.zip)
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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a dangerous proposition.

When the dictatorship comes after you, they're not concerned about the whole of every article that was written about you All they care about are the things they see as incriminating.

You could literally take a spell check dictionary list, pull three words out of the list at random and feed it into a ollama asking for a story with your name that included the three words as major points in the story.

Even on a relatively old video card, you could probably crap out three stories a minute. Have it write them in HTML and publish the site map into major search engines on a regular basis.

EDIT: OK this was too fun not to do it real quick!

~ cat generate.py

import random
import requests
import json
import time
from datetime import datetime

ollama_url = "http://127.1:11434/api/generate"
wordlist_file = "words.txt"

with open(wordlist_file, 'r') as file:
    words = [line.strip() for line in file if line.strip()]

selected_words = random.sample(words, 3)
theme = ", ".join(selected_words)

prompt = f"Write a short, imaginative story about a person named Rumba using these three theme words: {theme}. The first word is their super power, the second word is their kyptonite, the third word is the name of their adversary.  Return only the story as HTML content ready to be saved and viewed in a browser."

response = requests.post(
    ollama_url,
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
    data=json.dumps({"model": "llama3.2","prompt": prompt})
)

story_html = ""
for line in response.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
    if line.strip():
        try:
            chunk = json.loads(line)
            story_html += chunk.get("response", "")
        except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
            print(f"JSON decode error: {e}")



timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
filename = f"story_{timestamp}.html"

with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
    file.write(story_html)

print(f"Story saved as {filename}")

~ cat story_20250630_130846.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Rumba's Urban Adventure</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<style>
body {font-family: Arial, sans-serif;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Rumba's Urban Adventure</h1>

<p>Rumba was a master of <b>slangs</b>, able to effortlessly weave in and out of conversations with ease. Her superpower allowed her to manipulate language itself, bending words to her will. With a flick of her wrist, she could turn a phrase into a spell.</p>

<p>But Rumba's greatest weakness was her love of <b>bungos</b>. The more she indulged in these sweet treats, the more her powers wavered. She would often find herself lost in thought, her mind clouded by the sugary rush of bungos. Her enemies knew this vulnerability all too well.</p>

<p>Enter <b>Carbarn</b>, a villainous mastermind with a personal vendetta against Rumba. Carbarn had spent years studying the art of linguistic manipulation, and he was determined to exploit Rumba's weakness for his own gain. With a wave of his hand, he summoned a cloud of bungos, sending Rumba stumbling.</p>

<p>But Rumba refused to give up. She focused her mind, channeling the power of slangs into a counterattack. The air was filled with words, swirling and eddying as she battled Carbarn's minions. In the end, it was just Rumba and Carbarn face-to-face.</p>

<p>The two enemies clashed in a spectacular display of linguistic fury. Words flew back and forth, each one landing with precision and deadliness. But Rumba had one final trick up her sleeve - a bungo-free zone.</p>

<p>With a burst of creative energy, Rumba created a bubble of pure slangs around herself, shielding her from Carbarn's attacks. The villain let out a defeated sigh as his plan was foiled once again. And Rumba walked away, victorious, with a bag of bungos stashed safely in her pocket.</p>

</body>
</html>

Interesting that it chose female rather than male or gender neutral. Not that I'm complaining, but I expected it to be biased :)

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

Yup, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish with 10gb of VRAM and a 12b model. Hell, my profile pic (which isn't very good, tbf) was made on that 10gb VRAM card using localhosted stable diffusion. I hate big corp AI, but I absolutely love open market and open source local models. Gonna be a shame when they start to police them.

To OP: The problem is that they're looking for keywords. With the amount of people under surveillance these days, they don't give a rat's ass if you went to your favorite coffee roasting site, they want to find the stuff they don't want you to do.

Piracy? You're on a list. Any cleaning chemical that can be related to the construction of explosives? You're on a list. These lists will then tack on more keywords that pertain to that list. For example, the explosives list will then search for matching components bought within a close span of time that would indicate you're making them. Even searching for ways to enforce your privacy just makes them more interested.

So then you put out a bunch of fake data. This data happens to say you viewed a page pertaining that matching component. Whelp, that list just got hotter and now there are even more eyes on you and they're being slightly more attentive this time. Its a bad idea. The only way you're getting out of surveillance, at least online, is to never go online.

In reality, they probably won't even do anything about the above. What they really want is money. Money for your info; money to sell more things to you. They want the average home to be filled with advertisements tailored from your information. Because those adverts make those companies money, which they then use to buy more information to monetize your existence. Its the largest pyramid scheme known to humanity, and we're the unpaid grunts.

The moment the world became connected through telephones, cable TV, and then internet this scheme was already in motion way beforehand. Let's be honest, smartphones were the motherload. A TV, phone, and computer you always keep on you? They were salivating that day.