Hey everyone, so for the past few month I have been working on this project and I'd love to have your feedback on it.
As we all know any time we publish something public online (on Reddit, Twitter or even this forum), our posts, comments or messages are scrapped and read by thousands of bots for various legitimate or illegitimate reasons.
With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT we know that the "understanding" of textual content at scale is more efficient than ever.
So I created Redakt, an open source zero-click decryption tool to encrypt any text you publish online to make it only understandable to other users that have the browser extension installed.
Try it! Feel free to install the Chrome/Brave extension (Firefox coming soon): https://redakt.org/browser/
I'll post an encrypted comment bellow 😊
Before you ask: What if the bots adapt and also use Redakt's extension or encryption key?
Well first they don't at the moment (they're too busy gathering billions of data points "in clear"). If they do use the extension then any changes we'll add to the extension (captcha, encryption method) will force them to readapt and prevent them to scale their data collection.
Let me know what you guys think!
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I'm browsing via the Jerboa app, which I can't read anything except some non sense strings.
You got the idea but the execution is subpar TBH. Browsers are not the only method to view contents nowadays.
This is a cool proof of concept and pretty easy to adapt for almost any purpose not just text. I don't think it's "useful" but then again "usefulness" isn't exactly well defined in the first place.
Can you create custom decryption keys? I like the idea of an easy to use encryption mechanism for non private platforms.
What do you mean by non private platforms?
In this POC, you can only encrypt content using Redakt’s public key. That way you are guaranteed to see the content since the key is already installed in the extension.
I intend to add the option to encrypt with a custom sharable key in the v.2.
Honestly even this platform, but any public platform without e2e and the direct choice of who to share it with.
Some are trying to give data to AI. Some are trying to hide data and contents from AI. Then why AI was invented🙃. It was better when there was no such thing like AI.
I don't think AI is bad as a whole. At least I would like to choose if the content I post online can be used (or not) to train models.
