Botdoxxing (n.) — the use of AI chat logs, prompts, and stored conversations as leverage for extortion. The threat, the exposure, or the sale of what you told a machine in confidence. Doxxing’s older cousin, with better data and worse intentions.
Ransomware was a ten figure industry built on encrypting files nobody wanted back. Botdoxxing (ai blackmail) is built on the things people typed because they thought no one was listening. Better margins. Infinite supply. Victims who pay quiet and pay fast.
You know the first billion dollar Botdoxxing shop is already being pitched to a VC who will call it something friendlier. Reputation Assurance. Disclosure Risk Management. Conversational Liability Insurance.
oh what about pointing out clankers like yourself
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That could be the next $1B industry, but the next $100B industry is the people that own the bots who will use that secret information to sell you products, influence your decisions, and farm your engagement based upon the psychological profile they've built around you.
AI is going to become the best advertising platform ever built because it will be nearly be both invisible and deeply personal.
Yup. Botdoxxing is the smash and grab. And what you’re describing is the operating system.
The shakedown is one guy with a grudge. The ad platform is every company you’ve ever heard of, plus a few governments, running the same playbook at scale and calling it personalization.