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Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: If you've left a comment on a YouTube video, a new website claims it might be able to find every comment you've ever left on any video you've ever watched. Then an AI can build a profile of the commenter and guess where you live, what languages you...
The service is called YouTube-Tools and is just the latest in a suite of web-based tools that started life as a site to investigate League of Legends usernames. Now it uses a modified large language model created by the company Mistral to generate a background report on YouTube commenters based on their conversations. The tool presents a significant privacy risk, and shows that people may not be as anonymous in the YouTube comments sections as they may think.
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