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I asked the AI to erase my name from data broker sites

She asked the AI to erase her digital footprint. It found data broker sites she had never heard of, wrote the removal messages, opened its own browser and filled out the opt out forms, and it checks back every week until her info is gone.

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How it works

  1. Asks the AI to erase her digital footprint
  2. It finds data broker sites she had not heard of
  3. It writes removal messages
  4. It opens its own browser and fills out the opt out forms
  5. It checks back weekly until her info disappears

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent did not hand her a list and stop. It opened a browser, filled in the opt out forms itself, and keeps going back every week until her info is gone.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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