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Running 'Profile this user' against 1,000 Hacker News comments through an LLM reveals how much personal information can be inferred from public online activity. This highlights a growing surveillance concern where AI models can build detailed psychological and demographic profiles from seemingly innocuous public posts, raising significant privacy implications.

New surveillance dystopia prompt: try running "Profile this user" against 1,000 comments by someone on Hacker News to see what an LLM can figure out

<p>New surveillance dystopia prompt: try running &quot;Profile this user&quot; against 1,000 comments by someone on Hacker News to see what an LLM can figure out</p>