Great idea.
Stop posting things like this, you're just giving them ideas, and you can't take it back once it's out there.
I assure you, you may find the prodpect abhorrent, but there are people around who'd consider it a perfectly cromulent Tuesday.
I’m not sure who “they” are, but I’m pretty sure they’re already doing that, and don’t need me to get the idea. I think it’s important to talk about what LLMs mean for privacy. Profiling every HN user might be a useful tool to are people more aware of the problems. But I totally get your unease, which is also why I haven’t done that myself.
The cat is out of the bag, can’t get it back in by ignoring the fact.
Re:AI will enable mass spying
by aijoe5pack on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:13AM
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Security by obscurity :). Accept that they will probably do this and work towards a counter-measure. Political solutions might be a counter-measure, as the Op of this thread is probably alluding to.
Now it would take a single skilled person the better part of an afternoon to, for example, download a HN dump, and have an LLM create reports on the users. You could put in things like political affiliation, laws broken, countries travelled recently, net worth range, education and work history, professional contacts, ...