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I feel like I remember a bot a while ago that you summoned it somehow with a username and shortly later it would respond with a summary of what it knows about you as a person based on your comments and posts. Does anyone know what happened to it? I'd like to try it out again, if it still exists

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[–] iceberg314@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

The cool thing about lemmy is that you can download your data as a JSON file. I think you could upload that to any LLM chat bot and they may be able to do something similar

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I recall what you're talking about, but was it even attached to the fedi? I thought it was a xitter thing to compare your style to others.

[–] incompetent@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

I remember a Reddit bot that does what OP is asking about, but I never saw it here.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You can literally pass your profile link to an LLM and it does a pretty fair job

[–] CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

You make it look like it's easy.

Can you find anything about me given my Reddit profile? https://www.reddit.com/user/JohnDarlenHimself/

Tell me just my real name, it's pretty easy. Then tell me my middle name (here I'll get very very impressed).

(Just paste in that AI you're saying. I tried Qwen and got nothing).

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

tell me about reddit user JohnDarlenHimself

Based on recent Reddit activity as of early 2026,
JohnDarlenHimself is an active user who participates in technical and
philosophical discussions, often in Portuguese.

His activity highlights include:

Privacy & Technical Support: He is active in the rethinkdns
subreddit, where he has sought assistance with DNS proxy
configurations and troubleshooting.

Philosophy & Debate: He participates in the FilosofiaBAR
subreddit, engaging in deep discussions about human experience,
labor, and social structures.

Broad Interests: His profile interaction suggests a focus on
open-source software, digital privacy (such as the r/degoogle
community), and the social impact of technology.

Would you like me to look for his specific posts or contributions
in a particular subreddit?
[–] CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's weird, Google bypasses the AI prevention system of Reddit. In the other hand, Qwen told me it can't access because the page was blocked possible by anti-AI system.

Google as always not caring about boundaries.

But ny question is if that AI can find contents about my real person not the public info already available, like OP mentioned, a bot that find the real person based on the username interests.

Then the parent comment said it's easy as throwing into an LLM, that's what I was expecting... But the real person not the already public info.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 12 points 18 hours ago

Reddit's AI blocking is because they want to charge money for AI scraping. Google paid the money so they are allowed to scrape.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

They probably use the search bot workaround. They don't train their AI on reddit directly but they scrape a ton of data for search then train on that. See? No rules being broken.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

That's interesting, it wasn't even close for mine. I also asked it about my name on lemmy as well as reddit and interestingly enough it gave almost the exact same answer lol

No Google AI, I'm not interested in the Lostwave community, neither on reddit or here lol

[–] MrPnut@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

You can ask google who Reddit user x is and it gives you a summary

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I asked Google to look at my reddit profile and it hallucinated that I have a son, despite that not being the case and me never having claimed or said anything like that. It got at least some other stuff right.