Hey everyone, so for the past few month I have been working on this project and I’d love to have your feedback on it.

As we all know any time we publish something public online (on Reddit, Twitter or even this forum), our posts, comments or messages are scrapped and read by thousands of bots for various legitimate or illegitimate reasons.

With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT we know that the “understanding” of textual content at scale is more efficient than ever.

So I created Redakt, an open source zero-click decryption tool to encrypt any text you publish online to make it only understandable to other users that have the browser extension installed.

Try it! Feel free to install the extension (Chrome/Brave/Firefox ): https://redakt.org/browser/

EDIT: For example, here’s a Medium article with encrypted content: https://redakt.org/demo/

Before you ask: What if the bots adapt and also use Redakt’s extension or encryption key?

Well first they don’t at the moment (they’re too busy gathering billions of data points “in clear”). If they do use the extension then any changes we’ll add to the extension (captcha, encryption method) will force them to readapt and prevent them to scale their data collection.

Let me know what you guys think!

    • queermunist she/her
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      -68 months ago

      People make derivative works because they add their own ideas and spin. AI do not have ideas or spin, it’s copy-paste with extra steps.

        • queermunist she/her
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          -78 months ago

          The tech requires huge amounts of processing power and loose laws to even exist. It could be banned quite easily.

          It won’t be lol

      • @moreeni@lemm.ee
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        -18 months ago

        Have you even been following what images AI can generate now? Every work is original, it doesn’t just copy and paste pixels.

        • queermunist she/her
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          -58 months ago

          What it does is use a large statistical model to determine which pixels it copies, but it’s still copy/paste with extra steps.

          • Zach777
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            38 months ago

            @queermunist @moreeni I have to disagree. The plagiarism claims are unfounded as the ais are making their own artwork off of what they have learned. Usually starting from noise and de-noising it into something that matches its’ memories of the key words. In the case of the generative art ais anyway.

            While there can be valid arguments against copyrighted material being used for the ais, plagiarism is not one of them.

            • queermunist she/her
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              -48 months ago

              Far be it from me to defend the concept of intellectual property, but if a chat bot can be argued to not plagiarize then that implies it has an intelligence. It really doesn’t. It’s plagiarism with extra steps.