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?
Obscuration is what you’re thinking and it works with things like adnauseun (firefox add on that will click all ads in the background to obscure preference data). It’s a nice way to smear the data and probably better to do sooner (while the data collection is in infancy) rather than later (where the companies may be able to filter obscuration attempts).
I like it. I am really not a fan of being profiled, collected, and categorized. I agree with others, I hate this time line. It’s so uncanny.
I still don’t really understand adnauseum. What is the difference in privacy compared to clicking on none of the ads?
Whatever data profile they already have on your can be obscured to make it useless vs them probably trickling in data.
Think of it like um…
Having a picture of you with a moderate amount of notes that are accurate, vs having a picture of you with so much irrelevant/inaccurate data that you can’t be certain of anything.
But the picture of me they have is: doesn’t click ads like all the other adblocker people (which is accurate)
Why would I want to change it to: clicks ALL the ads like all the other adnauseum people (which is also accurate)
Did not know this existed. I like the concept