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New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Step 2: Search the whole internet: It quietly checks LinkedIn, Google, other Reddit accounts, etc., to find possible real people who match those clues.

Oh. Whew.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago

To be honest, internet search got so shitty, soon it will be a really impressive skill to search the internet efficiently

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, call this article what it is, clickbait fear mongering.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought Lemmy comments might be indexed anyway, but neither Kagi nor DDG turned up anything for my username. Wonder if it's different for other instances?

Not surprising considering those challenges against AI scrapers likely also effect Search Engine crawlers. Stuff can get through if it's federated on other servers that don't have such measures but if you don't participate in communities on those instances it's less likely.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Searched "lemmy floquant" on DDG and one of your comments is the second result.

First result was the user profile of the same name but different instance.