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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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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.