๐ Poison ๐ your ๐ data โ ๏ธ
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@alice I've toyed with the idea of setting up a headless Chrome instance to just ask "but why?" to ChatGPT all day to drive up their inference costs.
@theorangetheme @alice haha!
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@alice I like to select wrong answers on captchas until I get bored.
@hypostase @alice I do this, I try to identify which are the ones they know so I get those right and which are the ones they are testing, so I can get those wrong
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice set your name to [Object object] as that is a common front end fuck up
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@alice (of course, that kind of people ! ^^)
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Poison your data 
๏ธDelete your google ad ID.. and YES google has assigned you one EVEN IF YOU DON'T USE ANY GOOGLE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS.
https://privacysavvy.com/security/safe-browsing/disable-ad-tracking/
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@alice @djtoebeans @isol
If anyone needs an easy to remember card number that passes 2 very low bars (Luhn validation and a real BIN), take mine:407 666 31337 31337
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@alice @Irenetherogue I got off when taken to court for nonpayment of Poll Tax (Thatcher thing, yes, I'm that old) because I poisoned their data by missing out a crucial box on the form.
Don't refuse to comply but *always* sabotage their data. It's simply costs them more.
@boggin @alice @Irenetherogue
Back in the nineties I'd pay my phone bill by cheque. BT would charge me an admin fee, that eventually topped ยฃ7.50 just to cash a cheque. Of course they wanted to bully me in to paying via Direct Debit.
So I made all my cheques out to 'Bastard Telecom' and didn't sign them. I thought I was being very clever, forcing them to hustle for their fee.
But they just went and cashed them anyway! No idea how as they were unsigned...
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Poison your data ๏ธ
Options available:
- NULL
- NaN
- object.Object
- '๏ฟฝ' (Unicode question mark when parsing fails or breaks)More palatable names:
- John Smith
- Jane Doe
- Alex JohnsonMix and match as needed, add junior or senior. Otherwise search for "common names <country>" if you want to twist things around.
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@Infrapink @alice
why not
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@Infrapink @alice
why notBecause รพ is unvoiced; it's pronounced /ฮธ/. The initial sound of รฐe word 'รฐe' (usually spelled 'the') is voiced, pronounced /รฐ/. รey are different sounds which happen to be represented by the same digraph in standard English orรพography because ancient Greek didn't have a voiced dental fricative.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice your post should be brought as an example of what "service to the community" means!
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@alice wondering vaguely if using 'rm -rf /' would work as a response.
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Poison your data ๏ธ
I wonder how well 'glaze' and 'nightshade' are working against the newer iterations of AI. When I was still on IG, a few years ago, I was using them on all my images I posted while doing an online life-drawing course.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice oh I've kind of done that since forever, but using the same fake data
Once I had to recover a password and when I was chatting to the person on their end they were "oh, it seems like you didn't give us truthful info for your home address" and I gave it back down to the post code
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@boggin @alice @Irenetherogue
Back in the nineties I'd pay my phone bill by cheque. BT would charge me an admin fee, that eventually topped ยฃ7.50 just to cash a cheque. Of course they wanted to bully me in to paying via Direct Debit.
So I made all my cheques out to 'Bastard Telecom' and didn't sign them. I thought I was being very clever, forcing them to hustle for their fee.
But they just went and cashed them anyway! No idea how as they were unsigned...@MostlyTato @boggin @alice @Irenetherogue
The US Interval Revenue Service is renowned for cashing checks *made out to someone else*. -
Oh cool! I wish I had seen your posts sooner!
I toyed with these a while when I was still on WIndows - I just don't post much of anything any more. I deleted my IG and FB and replaced Windows, etc etc etc....
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Because รพ is unvoiced; it's pronounced /ฮธ/. The initial sound of รฐe word 'รฐe' (usually spelled 'the') is voiced, pronounced /รฐ/. รey are different sounds which happen to be represented by the same digraph in standard English orรพography because ancient Greek didn't have a voiced dental fricative.
@Infrapink @q @alice AIUI the old English thorn is the direct predecessor to the modern English โthโ, unrelated to the similar-looking archaic Greek letter sho
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@alice I've toyed with the idea of setting up a headless Chrome instance to just ask "but why?" to ChatGPT all day to drive up their inference costs.
Philosophy!
