{"id":223024,"date":"2026-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/i-vibe-coded-a-global-mass-surveillance-site-in-2-hours-using-openais-codex-thats-a-privacy-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:55:09","slug":"i-vibe-coded-a-global-mass-surveillance-site-in-2-hours-using-openais-codex-thats-a-privacy-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/i-vibe-coded-a-global-mass-surveillance-site-in-2-hours-using-openais-codex-thats-a-privacy-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"I Vibe Coded a Global Mass-Surveillance Site in 2 Hours Using OpenAI’s Codex. That’s a Privacy Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Vibe Coded a Global Mass-Surveillance Site in 2 Hours Using OpenAI’s Codex. That’s a Privacy Nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/articles\/i-vibe-coded-a-global-mass-surveillance-site-in-2-hours-using-openais-codex<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-13 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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This project started out innocently, I swear. I had no intention of mass-monitoring cities around the world. <\/p>\n

My original goal was just to compare the coding experience of OpenAI’s Codex with that of Anthropic’s Claude Code, which I tried last month. The fact that I ended up with a dashboard with live camera feeds from cities around the world turned out to be surprisingly timely.<\/p>\n

The issue of AI tools being used for public surveillance is at the center of a controversy involving Anthropic and the US Department of Defense. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to allow his company’s technology to be used for mass public surveillance. Anthropic lost the contract, so OpenAI swooped in to replace it, claiming its contract “protects against unacceptable use.” <\/p>\n

Civilians are also tapping into AI for surveillance, using it to quickly create interactive visualizations of public datasets from organizations such as NASA and NOAA. I’ve seen several crop up on social media, from personal dashboards that track financial markets to new public sites like WorldMonitor and SitDeck that monitor the geopolitical situation in Iran. I was not aware of this when I began my project. <\/p>\n

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My basic dashboard was shockingly easy to create; it took just two hours. The experience of using Codex was comparable to that of using Claude Code, perhaps even superior in terms of downloadability and ease of use, though that came with some downsides.<\/p>\n

So Simple to Surveil It’s Frightening<\/h2>\n

Broadly speaking, the project solidified something I suspected but hadn’t yet fully proven to myself: AI has made simple, locally hosted websites nearly as easy to create as any other AI-generated content (images, graphs, essays). You just provide creative direction and iterate on the AI’s output through basic natural-language prompts.<\/p>\n

That’s great news in many ways. Anyone can prototype a new business without…<\/p>\n

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