Is there a similar tool that will “poison” my personal tracked data? Like, I know I’m going to be tracked and have a profile built on me by nearly everywhere online. Is there a tool that I can use to muddy that profile so it doesn’t know if I’m a trans Brazilian pet store owner, a Nigerian bowling alley systems engineer, or a Beverly Hills sanitation worker who moonlights as a practice subject for budding proctologists?
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
Submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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SPRUNT@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The only way to taint your behavioral data so that you don’t get lumped into a targetable cohort is to behave like a manic. As I’ve said in a past comment here, when you fill out forms, pretend your gender, race, and age is fluid. Also, pretend you’re nomadic. Then behave erratic as fuck when shopping online - pay for bibles, butt plugs, taxidermy, and PETA donations.
Your data will be absolute trash. You’ll also be miserable because you’re going to be visiting the Amazon drop off center with gag balls and porcelain Jesus figurines to return every week.
Bonehead@kbin.social 9 months ago
Then behave erratic as fuck when shopping online - pay for bibles, butt plugs, taxidermy, and PETA donations.
...in the same transaction. It all needs to be bought and then shipped together. Not only to fuck with the algorithm, but also to fuck with the delivery guy. Because we usually know what you ordered. Especially when it's in the soft bag packaging. Might as well make everyone outside your personal circle think you're a bit psychologically disturbed, just to be safe.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Other than buying the erratic shit, that’s pretty much who I am. I’ve never been honest on a form and I’m a bit of a nomad.
I know that back in the day when Facebook guessed your political affiliation and other things they got everything about me hilariously wrong. I’m not a Republican with 3 kids and a hummer. Google seems to get closer with the targeted ads, but honestly not that much closer.
I can be individually identified, but my identity is garbage and not useful.
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 9 months ago
Maybe have a look at using Adnauseam. 👌😁
Australis13@fedia.io 9 months ago
The browser addon "AdNauseum" can help with that, although it's not a complete solution.
capital@lemmy.world 9 months ago
PatFussy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
r/BrandNewSentence
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is there a similar tool that will “poison” my personal tracked data? Like, I know I’m going to be tracked and have a profile built on me by nearly everywhere online. Is there a tool that I can use to muddy that profile so it doesn’t know if I’m a trans Brazilian pet store owner, a Nigerian bowling alley systems engineer, or a Beverly Hills sanitation worker who moonlights as a practice subject for budding proctologists?
Have you considered just being utterly incoherent, and not making sense as a person? That could work.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 9 months ago
According to my exes, yes.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We all know you’re the last one.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 months ago
There are programs and plugins you can download that will open a bunch of random websites to throw off tracking programs.
sour@kbin.social 9 months ago
you can be under influence of silliness
sbv@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I guess it depends what your threat model is.
If you don’t like advertising, then you’re just piling a bunch of extra interests/demographics in there. It’ll remain roughly as valuable as it was before.
If you’re concerned about privacy and state actors, your activity would just increase. Anything that would trigger state interest would remain, so you’d presumably receive the same level of interest. Worse, if you aren’t currently of interest, there’s a possibility randomly generated traffic would be flagged by your adversary and increase their level of interest in you.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fascinating that they develop this tool and then only release Windows and MacOS versions.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s simple math. 97% of the population uses those two operating systems.
There isn’t much more incentive to go after the 3% Linux users. You know the population that loves free and open source software and isn’t exactly known for dropping a bunch of cash on software. Not to mention it’s a fragmented 3%. Even the flatpak, snap, app images of the world that were supposed to make devs lives easier are fragmented across distros.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Android called. They want their representation in your statistics. Android is Linux.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 9 months ago
To be fair, windows and macos are the 2 biggest computer operating systems in the world. It makes a lot more sense to focus on building tools for people using the biggest platforms rather than focus on people using something with a user base fragmented across multiple versions of the same OS.
Though I do agree a version for Linux would be nice. Even if we have the mac equivalent of wine, darling, I don’t know enough about it to say whether it’s up to the task or not.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No they’re not. Android is Linux.
ElleChaise@kbin.social 9 months ago
Aren't Linux people usually programmers anyway? Why develop for developers?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Why develop for developers?
Why wouldn’t you?
It’s not like developers get off on reinventing the wheel or something. If somebody has a working solution, I’d rather use that than spend time coming up with code on my own. I’m busy enough as it is.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 9 months ago
what does being a developer have anything to do with it? Do you really think we only use things we develop ourselves?
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Omg, I can’t believe you actually just said that. 🤣🤣🤣
Do you know what a library is? How about a language?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I bet that before the end of this year this tool will be one of the things that helped improve the performance and quality of AI.
pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Apparently people who specialize in AI/ML have a very hard time trying to replicate the desired results when training models with ‘poisoned’ data. Is that true?
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I’ve only heard that running images through a VAE just once seems to break the Nightshade effect, but no one’s really published anything yet.
You can finetune models on known bad and incoherent images to help it to output better images if the trained embedding is used in the negative prompt.
There’s also a chance that making a lot of purposefully bad data could actually make models better by helping the model recognize bad output and avoid it.
neurogenesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Oily snakes slither such that back and forth looks like production…
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Reminder that this is made by Ben Zhao, the University of Chicago professor who stole open source code for his last data poisoning scheme.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pardon my ignorance but how do you steal code if it’s open source?
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.
Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
He took GPLv3 code, which is a copyleft license that requires you share your source code and license your project under the same terms as the code you used. You also can’t distribute your project as a binary-only or proprietary software. When pressed, they only released the code for their front end, remaining in violation of GPLv3.