You can bet that with nearly two decades of data, other companies like Facebook and Twitter are doing the same. You can also bet that companies like Palantir are working to build files on each person that aggregates their data across all social media as well as other surveillance metrics. As Meredith Whitaker explains, this leads to some pretty frightening possibilities such as “signature strikes”
I just linked two old accounts to a private sub to test this. they’re not disseminating the Ai summary tool to everyone so I can’t tell if it will read deleted posts or my Redacted comments.
just a funny thing on the side though. the test post I made on my private sub got shared twice and viewed 26 times. whatever that was about
That’s … concerning. Kudos to that mod for making people aware of it.
Apparently anyone can do that, so I tried mine out of curiosity (I’m not a mod, never have been): https://reddit-wrapped.kadoa.com/ulu-mulu-no-die?share
This Redditor is basically a gaming savant with a spreadsheet addiction, meticulously dissecting game mechanics and then dropping mic-drop guides for the masses. When not optimizing virtual real estate or factorio builds, they’re busy troubleshooting Linux like a digital mechanic, all while subtly reminding us that their ‘fun’ involves more calculations than most people’s taxes. They’re the kind of person who’d analyze their Reddit Wrapped to see if the algorithm correctly identified their ‘efficiency at leisure’ metric.
I’ve read the entire profile and it seems to me more like satire than an actual serious summary (quite some hyperbole in there), tho it’s worrying that your entire reddit history can be analyzed so quickly.
This thing can end very badly in the wrong hands.
That’s fun, but it’s just a third party summary of your posting history, not what Reddit is using.
jeeysus that hit close to home for me. lol
now i wish i had known that comment scrubbers existed before locked myself out of my account; knowing that my life can be summarized so well in a single paragraph is worrying.
Went to see my profile…
Holy shit lmao at my summary
Profile Summary
This Redditor waltzes through the digital halls like a disgruntled philosophy professor, effortlessly pivoting from intricate critiques of the gaming industry’s ethical failings to dropping spicy takes on Brazilian politics. They’re a connoisseur of calling out hypocrisy, whether it’s corporate giants or problematic beauty gurus, all while probably running a retro game jam in their spare time. Basically, if Reddit were a classroom, they’d be the one raising their hand to correct the teacher, then hosting a surprisingly well-attended after-school club.
What a cesspool. Fuck that place. I know that it’ll probably never die, but I hope one day more common folks begin to realise how fucked it is and leave.
I wonder if privacy-focused reddit users will be migrating soon.
“User has mentioned one of his parents being Chechen and talks about Ebru art a lot, based on their comment history they are likely from Konya.”
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What could be done with this information that can’t be done just by looking at user’s post history?
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I routinely (weekly) purge/delete all my posts with a python script. How would this affect my summary?
You can try for yourself: https://reddit-wrapped.kadoa.com/
That being said, they have backups, even more so since they started selling reddit data to AI companies for training.
I seriously doubt deleting your comments would do anything on that side, tho it does make them deleted from “normal” user searches.
To be clear, the link you’re sharing is not what reddit is using
You’re right, tho AI tools are not so dissimilar from each other, so unless reddit developed their own proprietary tool (which I doubt), any tool can give you a rough idea of what AI can “tell” about you.
I think the main thing is even if they were using the same underlying model (like chatgpt or Claude), they give them different prompts. For example, the one you linked seems more clearly prompted to give you a humorous roast style summary. Just from the screenshot from Reddit I get the impression they gave it a prompt about “you are an assistant for community moderators who are evaluating what course to take with a user” or something like that.
Interesting, thanks for the link!
For me:
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Not enough activity to generate a wrapped summary.
I wouldn’t call this failsafe though, I’m sure some of my posts slip through and get archived. No idea how often those mirror sites copy the data.
Edit: my script doesn’t just delete, it also edits the post and inserts “.” to try and fool those deleted post viewer sites (can’t remember the names)
my script doesn’t just delete, it also edits the post and inserts “.”
That’s smart! It could actually trick the backups, since backups don’t check the content they’re actually saving.
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I keep remembering that automated edit-and-delete-suite for reddit when i’m scrolling feddit at work, but then forget when i’m home.
It’s about damn time i nuke my stuff.
