I feel like I remember a bot a while ago that you summoned it somehow with a username and shortly later it would respond with a summary of what it knows about you as a person based on your comments and posts. Does anyone know what happened to it? I’d like to try it out again, if it still exists

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        3 months ago

        Here’s what I got on google:

        tell me about reddit user JohnDarlenHimself

        Based on recent Reddit activity as of early 2026,
        JohnDarlenHimself is an active user who participates in technical and
        philosophical discussions, often in Portuguese.
        
        His activity highlights include:
        
        Privacy & Technical Support: He is active in the rethinkdns
        subreddit, where he has sought assistance with DNS proxy
        configurations and troubleshooting.
        
        Philosophy & Debate: He participates in the FilosofiaBAR
        subreddit, engaging in deep discussions about human experience,
        labor, and social structures.
        
        Broad Interests: His profile interaction suggests a focus on
        open-source software, digital privacy (such as the r/degoogle
        community), and the social impact of technology.
        
        Would you like me to look for his specific posts or contributions
        in a particular subreddit?
        
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            3 months ago

            Reddit’s AI blocking is because they want to charge money for AI scraping. Google paid the money so they are allowed to scrape.

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            They probably use the search bot workaround. They don’t train their AI on reddit directly but they scrape a ton of data for search then train on that. See? No rules being broken.

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          That’s interesting, it wasn’t even close for mine. I also asked it about my name on lemmy as well as reddit and interestingly enough it gave almost the exact same answer lol

          No Google AI, I’m not interested in the Lostwave community, neither on reddit or here lol