"AI Browser Plug-Ins to Help Consumers Improve Digital Privacy Literacy, Combat Manipulative Design"
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help consumers understand online exploitation. Increasing end users' digital literacy helps them better control their website interactions. A recent study allowed participants to experiment with online privacy settings without consequences. The researchers created "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome browser plug-in that replaced participant data with personas generated by the Large Language Model (LLM) GPT-4 from OpenAI. Privacy Sandbox lets users interact with social media platforms, news sites, and other sites to test how different data privacy settings work. As participants browsed sites, the browser plug-in applied AI-generated data, making it clear how they were targeted based on age, race, location, income, household size, and more. This article continues to discuss the studies on improving digital privacy literacy and fighting manipulative design.
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