US EditionAI Tool 'YouTube-Tools' Scrapes Comments to Build User Profiles, Raising Privacy Alarms
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AI Tool 'YouTube-Tools' Scrapes Comments to Build User Profiles, Raising Privacy Alarms
A controversial web service called YouTube-Tools is now offering AI-generated background reports on YouTube users—based entirely on the comments they’ve left across the platform. For $20 a month, anyone with an email and a credit card can use it to gather inferred data about another user’s location, language, and cultural or political views.The tool operates by scraping YouTube comment data—up to “20 billion comments” from “1.4 billion users,” a…
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