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... Lee S Dryburgh, an expert in AI visibility for consumer health and longevity brands, explained how this works in a report provided to The Register. People install browser extensions that purport to offer free VPN service or ad blocking or some other capability, likely without reading or understanding the extension's privacy policy. These extensions may silently intercept users' communications with AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek. They can do so by overriding the browser's native fetch() and XMLHttpRequest() functions in order to capture every prompt and every response. "This data is captured from real people's private AI conversations via browser extensions, stored in a vector database, and exposed via API to authenticated customers," said Dryburgh in his report. "The panelists have pseudonymized IDs (SHA-256 hashes) but the content of their conversations is stored verbatim and searchable -- and many prompts contain real names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and diagnosis codes." ...
People install browser extensions that purport to offer free VPN service or ad blocking or some other capability, likely without reading or understanding the extension's privacy policy.
These extensions may silently intercept users' communications with AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek. They can do so by overriding the browser's native fetch() and XMLHttpRequest() functions in order to capture every prompt and every response.
"This data is captured from real people's private AI conversations via browser extensions, stored in a vector database, and exposed via API to authenticated customers," said Dryburgh in his report.
"The panelists have pseudonymized IDs (SHA-256 hashes) but the content of their conversations is stored verbatim and searchable -- and many prompts contain real names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and diagnosis codes." ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-04 05:13 PM | Reply
Who the f*&^ has an "AI conversation"?
My AI history would be boring as f*&^ to anyone who was dumb enough to buy it. NEVER do I put personal information into an AI interface because I figure once it's there it's never coming back out, just like the rest of the internet.
#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-04 05:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Who you kidding, every truck driver west of the Mississippi knows who you are.
#3 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-03-04 06:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1
every truck driver west of the Mississippi knows who you are. #3 | POSTED BY -----------
Is that what you hear while they're ------- you?
How many fists you taking up your crap hole at once?
#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 06:32 PM | Reply
Look at the ------ calling somebody else a ------. Go put some salve on your mouth sores and go away.
#5 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-03-04 06:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Look at the ------ calling somebody else a ------
Considering I never called you that, you must self identify as a ------.
Not a surprise.
Go put some salve on your mouth sores and go away. #5 | POSTED BY TRUCKSTOP BITCH
You don't get them when you're in a long term committed relationship.
Not that a truck stop bitch like you would understand.
Get back to work, bitch.
#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 06:50 PM | Reply
FartFisher is the used up sock puppet - Dry, stiff and crusty.
#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-04 06:52 PM | Reply
#5 | Posted by fortfisher
It's not his fault you peg his gaydar every time you post...
#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-04 06:55 PM | Reply
90% of fartfister's stuff is about gay trucker sex. I guess it's all he thinks about.
Besides sticking up for pedophilia, and his loser nonexistent confederacy.
#9 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-04 06:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
This will be funny when they see Lamplighter asking himself asking questions and answering himself back.
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-03-05 12:47 PM | Reply
Who couldn't see this coming.
#11 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-05 04:17 PM | Reply
I use AI for coding, but sometimes I ask it to analyze my dreams. The results are always fun. Like last night I typed:
Analyze a dream for me. I was in old apartment complex after dark, and was having a hrad time trying to get the party started. We needed beer and snacks and stuff, and I had the hardest time trying to get to the car (stairways would disappear, I had to jump between ledges, etc) but we finally met up at the car. On the way through beautiful stark scenery, we get jumped by pirates. I have to soot one in the face with a bow, and another throws a knife at me, apparently fatal because that's where the dream ends.
#12 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-03-06 02:44 AM | Reply
HELIUMRAT - But that's just part of the story. What did AI have to say? "Lay off the vindaloo"?
#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-03-06 05:36 AM | Reply
#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis
Just cat and paste it. I use Grok.
#14 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-03-06 05:43 AM | Reply
Try this one:
I was asleep and I was dreaming. In the dream, I was walking down the Pacific beach, and it was night, and the sky was overcast, but I could see in the dark (I can see in the dark in most of my dreams). Down the beach from me, a group of dream figures I felt I knew where standing around a fire. I walked up to them. Only one of them looked up at me, a woman. Somehow, I knew she was a witch. "What is the source of your power?", I asked her. She took my hand in hers and we started to fly. We flew above the cloud layer, and I looked down on it. And we kept rising. We flew into space, into the orbit of the Earth. In the distance was a dark brown asteroid looking object, or so I thought. As we drew closer, I could see that it was a stone fortress. We went into the fortress and down it's corridors and through its rooms until we came to one with a locked chest in it. I walked up to the chest and opened it. Inside was a brilliant white light, and streamers of light came out of it. As the streamers passed me, I could hear thoughts, as if each streamer where a train of thought. Then I woke up.
#15 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-03-06 05:49 AM | Reply
Fortfisher:
EVERYTHING you post on here is a sexual insult of some kind, mostly homoerotic. ... You clearly are wanting to get something out into the open. ... You should just go ahead and tell everyone. (Same advice I gave Lindsay Graham)
#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-03-06 09:08 AM | Reply
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