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AI to make us more private?
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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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is what the top level comment said, so I went off this info. Thanks for explaining.
I didn't mean it like that.
I meant it in an illustrative manner - the results of their mass tracking and psychological profiling analysis was so dystopian, that filtering out random false data seems trivial in comparison. I feel like a bachelor or master thesis would be enough to come up with a sufficiently precise method.
In comparison to that it seems extremely complicated to algorithmically figure out what exact customized lie you have to tell to every single inidividual to manipulate them into behaving a certain way. That probably needed a larger team of smart people working together for many years.
But ofc I may be wrong. Cheers
As far as I know, none of them had random false data so I'm not sure why you would think that?
I feel like you're greatly exaggerating the level of intelligence at work here. It's not hard to figure out people's political affiliations with something as simple as their browsing history, and it's not hard to manipulate them with propaganda accordingly. They did not have an "exact customized lie" for every individual, they just grouped individuals into categories (AKA profiling) and showed them a select few forms of disinformation accordingly.
Good input, thank you.
You can use topic B as an illustration for topic A, even if topic B does not directly contain topic A. For example: (during a chess game analysis) "Moving the knight in front of the bishop is like a punch in the face from mike tyson."
There are probably better examples of more complex algorithms that work on data collected online for various goals. When developing those, a problem that naturaly comes up would be filtering out garbage. Do you think it is absolutely infeasable to implement one that would detect adnauseum specifically?
Sometimes yes. In this case, no.
I think the users of such products are extremely low (especially since they've been kicked from Google store) that it wouldn't be worth their time.
But no, I don't think they could either. It's just an automation script that runs actions the same way you would.