YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if you could make a self-hostable data poisoning automation utility. Put in a bunch of credentials for various social media sites, and it creates unintelligible usage patterns associated with your online identities. Not so much for poisoning training of generative AI, but for destroying any internal profiles any party might attempt to build on you by correlating your online behaviour.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Data poisoning can go a lot further than this. There are fascinating (and hilarious) videos by people who poison their music with inaudible (to humans) noise which, when it’s stolen by an AI company and used to train a model, will cause the model to output unintelligible garbage. Images can also be manipulated this way so that the model sees a completely different image than the human. Then there are the Nepenthes traps for AI data trawlers which trap the trawlers in an inescapable web of nested webpages of nonsense. The future is bright.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does it poison their data to share your honest preferences with them? Doesn’t that give them the most accurate dossier possible so they can hit you with ads that micro-target your interests?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not poison. Thats helping them profile you. 🤔

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  • slemptastrophe@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m an amateur photographer and I post my work online sometimes. How can I use this on my photo? Can you share any links to tools and tutorials? 

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not sure if this is still working or not. They also mention glaze. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

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    • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    an inescapable web of nested webpages of nonsense

    Like the most annoying webpage from the old Internet?

    web.archive.org/web/20030402051520/http://…/v1/

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pffffft.

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  • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nope. It just started another arms race.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve gotten a lot out of YouTube by leafing through the recommendations on videos that I liked and saving any promising ones to ‘watch later’ playlists by topic. I have a couple dozen of such playlists, each with multiple dozens of videos. Could live off these for a year at least.

    Of course, as mentioned, this is the opposite of poisoning the data.

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• CreepingAberration@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s the tl;dr for people that don’t want to navigate to YouTube?

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  • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t engage with algorithms, especially ones trying to sell things, like major corporate social media.

    Pretend to be something you’re not, especially vulnerable targeted populations. This lowers their ability easily target minorities.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Pretend to be something you’re not

      In my life, I was Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell in Uranium City, Saskatchewan. But in my dreams I played a different role. I was Monique Gibeau in post-war France! A hooker, with a heart of black charcoal.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So the fact that I occasionally get ads in Spanish, despite being a native-English speaker in a mainly English-speaking country, means I’m doing something right?

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  • slemptastrophe@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re on android, you can use an app like NewPipe to view YouTube content without actually going to YouTube. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe

    On a browser, you can use an invidious instance like https://yewtu.be. That also lets you view YouTube content ad free without signing in.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pipepipe supersedes newpipe doesn’t it? That’s what I’m using anyhow.

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    • e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      invidious instances never work for me, but with this one i could get further than ever, but when trying to play a video i get this error: “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”

      what could this be?

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  • ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I second this. If you get a response can you please let me know?

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    • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A response is in! :)

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can do is AI generated transcript: pastes.io/if-i-told-

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “fight back against surveillance capitalism and malicious advertisers by watching this youtube video”

  Get a load of this! Can’t make this stuff up…

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• amio@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The irony in this being a youtube link though

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  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People using YouTube need this info more than people using PeerTube.

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    • amio@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True, just thought it was funny.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s ok though. Using MPV to watch YouTube is a good way to stick it to the man

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• EaterOfLentils@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  YouTube keeps showing me ads for surrogacy (as in, being a surrogate), which could not be more the opposite of what I want to do in life. Obviously they know I am a woman of childbearing age, but somewhere the algorithm got me very wrong. I just let the ads play though, to let them think the idea doesn’t repulse me beyond anything I can imagine.

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