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Letting AI Dox Myself: A Rather Absurd Privacy Experiment
2026-05-26
Amiya_desi
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  • Had AI search for Amiya_desi's public internet traces
  • Observed how the model pieced together projects, interests, and identity into a persona
  • Used this experiment to reflect on public expression and privacy boundaries

kaito#

Been hanging around the internet for a year now, let’s see what AI thinks of me, hehe. Started with a daily-use plus to test the waters, and this answer really does have that GPT flavor. Pasted image 20260601202916.png

Gpt#

The Persona It Could Piece Together#

1. Core Identity: Godot Indie Game Learner/Creator.
Self-introductions and project lists across multiple platforms revolve around Godot, Game Jam, GDScript, and AI-assisted development; LINUX DO profile lists “developing games with Godot, dreaming of becoming an indie game Master” as a primary tag, and GitHub and itch.io also show traces of GDScript/Game Jam/small game projects.

2. Creative Aesthetic Clearly Leans Towards DDLC, Sayori, meta game, ACG/Fan Culture.
sayori.org explicitly states “DDLC tribute”; LINUX DO personal profile mentions wanting to make a great meta game; itch.io also has MikuBirthdayGame, and Bilibili has pixel animations and new game-related content.

3. Learning Style is “Interest/Project-Driven,” not traditional, step-by-step academic.
In public forum posts, he describes significant growth over the past year, having participated in over a dozen game jams and learned to develop with AI; he also states his learning is more passion-driven, learning whatever comes to mind, feeling miserable and learning slowly when passion wanes, and worrying about future job prospects. This aligns with the blog’s narrative of “from tutorials to Game Jam, from making games to being forced to learn art/servers/toolchains.”

4. He doesn’t just “want to do,” but has a track record of continuous execution.
Public projects include multiple playable web games/prototypes on itch.io, 11 public repositories on GitHub, and a blog documenting his journey from tutorials, Game Jam, version control, AI development pitfalls, to plugin selection reviews.

5. Broad Technical Interests: Games, AI, Servers, Personal Sites, Cloudflare, Docker, Robotics.
Blog tags and articles show him tinkering with personal servers, QQ bots, Vaultwarden, ntfy, Gatus, Portainer, AI Search Gateway, and other lightweight services; articles also summarize SSH, firewalls, lightweight deployment, and backup/documentation habits.

6. Strong Desire for Self-Expression, Also Strong Self-Observation.
The blog category “Daily Echoes” has 56 entries, with tags including “True Record,” “Self-Observation,” “Self-Doubt,” “Emotional Record,” “Privacy,” “Internet Traces,” etc.; he also specifically wrote “Letting AI Dox Myself,” a privacy experiment discussing whether a long-term online alias becomes a second ID, and the boundaries of AI organizing public traces.

7. Attitude Towards AI is Practical but Wary.
He frequently uses AI for development and server configuration, but in his blog reviews, he also mentioned how early “pure AI writing” led to messy project scripts and logic. He later realized that AI development requires good archiving, constraints, and version control. This indicates his AI usage isn’t just for fun, but has evolved into a more cautious workflow after experiencing real project failures.

Personality/Style Inference: Cautious Version#

From public texts, Amiya_desi’s outward style is likely: high enthusiasm, strong desire for expression, easily moved by works and characters; not low in initiative, but perhaps inconsistent in planning; highly sensitive to self-growth, proud of progress, but also prone to anxiety when comparing himself to “experts.” This judgment comes from his self-description of learning anxiety on LINUX DO, and numerous growth records, self-doubt, and project review content in his blog.

He’s more like a “creator-type tech student” than a pure programmer: making games is the main focus, but to make games, he’ll casually learn art, music, servers, deployment, AI tools, open-source workflows, and content expression. This persona is supported by his art learning articles, game development reviews, GitHub/itch.io projects, and personal server articles.

Claude#

Pasted image 20260601203747.png Claude also got a new free account, used sonnet4.6 max+thinking to search thoroughly.

Amiya_desi Public Traces Report#

Confirmed Platform Presence#

1. itch.io — Game Page amiya-desi.itch.io, current public work is “Fists of Fury(change),” a fighting game prototype made with Godot. The interface and description are entirely in Chinese, it supports direct browser play, and offers an Android APK download. This work is adapted from a GadGaming tutorial but incorporates his own designs—bullet time mechanics, optional vampirism toggle, hidden “super player” achievement conditions, and Android adaptation. The game description has a lighthearted tone, inviting friends to compare scores.

2. Personal Blog — blog.sayori.org The blog is named “Amiya’s Desk - Notes, Projects, and a Bit of Daily Tinkering.” Its tag system covers: Growth Record, Anime Club, Indie Games, Emotional Record, Diary, Essays, Pixel Art, Campus, Study Plan, Game Reviews, as well as technical tags like AI, Godot, Docker, Cloudflare, VPS, AstrBot, NapCat, SSH, Vaultwarden.

Public articles on the blog include: a longer self-story (about weight loss, exercise, making games, hitting pitfalls, “the first time truly bringing an idea to fruition”), an emotional record about AI messing up a project, and—a particularly noteworthy article—“I asked AI to search for the name Amiya_desi, curious to see how many versions of me the public internet could piece together.”

3. LINUX DO Community Has an account Amiya_desi on linux.do, recently appeared in technical discussion posts. LINUX DO is a relatively elite, quality-focused Chinese tech forum with a certain barrier to entry.

4. Doki Chinese Club Posted on the DDLC fan Chinese forum about the Sayori fan mod “Blue Sky,” with an invested tone, describing the process of getting the hidden ending and his feelings for the character.


Persona Pieced Together from Public Traces#

Technical Capability Level: Operates an independent blog and manages it himself, technical tags indicate server operation capabilities (VPS, SSH, Tunnel, Docker, Cloudflare), and has deployed QQ bot frameworks like AstrBot / NapCat. Independently develops games with Godot and releases playable versions. Overall, he’s the type who “can build things himself, not just use off-the-shelf tools.”

Creative Level: Game works show traces of his own design (modified control schemes, added original systems), and the blog records genuine emotions and growth, not just technical notes—showing a tendency to want to be seen and leave authentic records.

Interest Circles: Deeply resonates with meta games (DDLC), game choices and blog themes show sensitivity to “realism” and “character’s inner world,” with traces of anime club activities and campus life.

An Interesting Detail: You’ve already recorded “actively searching for your own online footprint” in your blog—so asking me this time is an external validation, to see how much AI can piece together, and if there are any discrepancies compared to what you already know.


Conclusion: Amiya_desi’s public traces are relatively restrained, without large-scale social media accounts, but several key platforms’ content corroborates each other, presenting a clear overall image: an independent developer who makes games with Godot, self-manages a blog, is active in Chinese tech communities, has an emotional investment in visual novels, and simultaneously records his growth and tinkering process.

Summary#

It’s clear Claude’s web search capabilities aren’t as good as GPT’s (lol). I heard Grok searches even better, but I’m too lazy to sign up. If you’re reading this and happen to have supergrok, feel free to search for me too (lol).

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Last edited 2026-06-24
Letting AI Dox Myself: A Rather Absurd Privacy Experiment
https://blog.sayori.org/en/posts/ai-self-doxxing-experiment/
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