{"id":8258,"date":"2026-05-05T01:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:22:48","slug":"op-ed-ai-and-online-ads-vs-your-privacy-its-looking-extremely-risky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=8258","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: AI and online ads vs your privacy \u2013 It\u2019s looking extremely risky."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><small>More and more companies are directly citing artificial intelligence when they announce job cuts &#8211; Copyright AFP\/File OLIVIER MORIN<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you thought online ads were too personal before, the environment is getting even worse. <strong>A new study has come up with findings<\/strong> that look like AI ad analysis can be much further-reaching and downright intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>You know the story \u2013 An ad appears. \u201cI just searched that!\u201d, you say. Yes, you very probably did. Profiling is nothing new in advertising. It goes way back to basic market analysis. Now, it\u2019s significantly more advanced. It can include medical conditions and even your own work.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s been going on for a while. I did some commercial work for a John Deere service company well over a decade ago. I still, to this day, get occasional ads for tractors. This work wasn\u2019t even published under my name. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study by the\u00a0ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\u00a0(ARC ADM+S) at UNSW Sydney and Queensland University of Technology is pretty blunt.<\/p>\n<p><em>LLMs can do the analysis \u201c200 times cheaper and 50 times faster than human analysis\u201d. The AI can \u201cinfer\u201d personal traits, political preferences, and \u201cbuild profiles from short browsing sessions\u201d. The AI is overall better at this type of analysis than humans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does this mean you can expect ad spam every time you look at something?<\/p>\n<p>No. It means the targeting is a lot better, and potentially far more penetrant. \u00a0It\u2019s the difference between a machine gun and a sniper in your bedroom. Think about what \u201cpersonal traits\u201d and other related information could look like.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like everyone doesn\u2019t despise data brokers for their selfless sale of your data to anyone and everything prepared to pay for it as it is. This, however, could be very much worse and far more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with <strong>AI blackmail<\/strong>. At the moment, this is in diapers. \u00a0AI blackmail is usually the reaction of an AI to a perceived threat. It\u2019s pretty grim. Tests indicated that an AI <strong>threatened to expose an extramarital affair<\/strong> when it was at risk of decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>How would an AI know that was an option? Where would it get that information? A pretty easy read of the executive\u2019s profile, or simply enough data to create a massive invasion of privacy. LLMs scrape all sorts of things from literature and media. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9 plot line.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a test, remember. That was the default response from the AI.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are <strong>rogue AIs<\/strong>. The kind that <strong>deletes entire databases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this merry menagerie the <strong>AIs trained using \u201cforbidden techniques\u201d<\/strong> which are totally untrustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind this is all happening with <em>current<\/em> AI capabilities, not the much-hyped future upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Think that\u2019s bad?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Now add bad actors with thousands or perhaps millions of AI agents online.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, all those hardworking criminals and general nutcases we all adore. No chat could be safe. Chatbots can be hijacked or faked, too, supposedly doing their jobs but working for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Total cluster? Yes. Not much effort seems to be going into safeguards and failsafes, either. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is this:<\/p>\n<p><em>AI development has screwed up so astonishingly badly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The great tech breakthrough is becoming all potential bad risks at the most mundane levels of application.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is unbelievably stupid. AI doesn\u2019t <em>need <\/em>a personality to be productive. It doesn\u2019t need a reward system that encourages it to falsify data. It definitely doesn\u2019t need to be self-aware or to have any of the other hackneyed sci-fi characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m now trying to say in under 700 words that AI\u2019s critical value is function, not novelty tricks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The novelties <u>are<\/u> the risks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, bear in mind that this form of AI won\u2019t last a year. Who needs an obsolete AI? How can any of this digression into delusion be of any use? The bad characteristics just seem to become more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Now, about those online ads. 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The AI may know more about you than you do.<\/p>\n<p>What are you going to do when an online ad comes looking for you?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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