Hopefully this isn’t too much of theoretical question… Is the upcoming AI world going to make our attempts at Privacy null and void? Given AI monitoring, listening, data collection and aggregation of personal data seems like it would be difficult if not impossible to prevent. Is there any discuss…

AI doesn’t necessarily mean any more data collection than was already going on. This stuff has been around forever already it’s mainly the generative AI that’s recently had a big surge in popularity.

there’s at least the beginning stages of tools cropping up to help mitigate ai analysis of your internet traffic. what comes to mind is how mullvad is working on DAITA for their VPN. the essence of it is “padding all packets to the same size” and sending random dummy packets. time will tell if it’s …

Excellent. I was hoping for this type of analysis and discussion. Thank you.

@anon21060844 Is the upcoming AI world going to make our attempts at Privacy null and void? Kind of, it’ll start becoming more and more unavoidable to run into people who don’t care about their privacy and in turn will be hampering yours. Ring Cameras, Meta’s smart glass and shit like that. As I…

[image] water: Ring Cameras, Meta’s smart glass and shit like that Lets hope things like photostatic veil become real for improving privacy.

"There is not much discussion to be had on something as vague as this. " I sure agree that it is vague at this point (at least to me). What I think I see coming is all of us being constantly surrounded by “passive” data collection devices that would end up making our attempts at reducing our expos…

[image] water: it’ll start becoming more and more unavoidable to run into people who don’t care about their privacy and in turn will be hampering yours. I feel that actually this is the norm from the start and the Internet/Globalization introduced another level that humanity was not prepared …

New research from Amnesty International suggests OP is right, [image] AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL rolled_up_newspaperNews This research brief serves an an excellent argument to use against people who try…

AI will be shittier than the bespoke algorithms the intelligence agencies were using to monitor the internet firehose. Those algorithms will spit out actual groups with network connections to [evil country], vs an AI hallucinating groups. The big problem is false positives. False negatives are alre…

Probably going to edit this it might not make sense, but i’ll post it here maybe i can get feedback if it’s stupid lmk: China has had worse privacy than the US ever will long before the advent of LLMs. The problem is the corporations and governments, hell, governments could kill and oppress people …

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