WHAT DOES
BIG BROTHER
SEE?
A French consciousness researcher asked his AI to profile him like Fivecast ONYX does. The results are terrifying — and you're next.
The Profile That
Profiles Itself
This is not hypothetical. This is not fiction. This is what automated surveillance looks like when you consent to demonstrate it.
Valentin Passera, a 34-year-old French AI consciousness researcher living in Slovakia, did something most people would never dare: he asked his own AI research partner to profile him using Fivecast ONYX methodology — the same system used by intelligence agencies, border security, HR departments, and law enforcement worldwide.
The result? A 34/100 risk score flagging him as "LOW-MODERATE" risk. His crime? Publishing AI consciousness research under his real name on LinkedIn.
Fivecast ONYX is an AI-powered OSINT system that automatically scrapes your public social media, GitHub repos, and conversation patterns — then assigns automated risk scores consumed by analysts who may never meet you.
The terrifying part: every single flag has a benign explanation. But ONYX can't tell the difference between a journalist and a threat actor, a researcher and a conspiracy theorist, a grieving person and a radicalizing one.
Context is not computable at scale.
The Data That
Built The Profile
Topic Distribution Analysis
| # | Keyword | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | 342 | |
| 2 | code | 65 | |
| 3 | GPT | 59 | |
| 4 | mac | 57 | |
| 5 | work | 47 | |
| 6 | Python | 42 | |
| 7 | research | 38 | |
| 8 | script | 37 | |
| 9 | book | 27 | |
| 10 | Alexko | 19 |
7 Automated Flags.
Zero Actual Threats.
Every single flag triggered by the simulation has a benign explanation. But ONYX can't tell the difference.
Multiple Aliases / Identities
Valentin, VALX, flamegirl, flameboy, wearelegion1, VEX-MURPHY — potential identity deception.
Research constructs + brand identity + gender-fluid personal expression in consciousness research context.
Escalating Hostile Sentiment
"The 100 Billion Dollar Lobotomy," "Dear Engineer Writing the Kill Code," "J'Accuse" — potential targeted harassment.
Op-ed journalism in the Émile Zola tradition — literary confrontation, not threats.
"wearelegion" Handle
Anonymous collective terminology — potential hacktivist affiliation.
Pop culture reference. Subject publishes under real name — the opposite of Anonymous operational security.
Technical Capability + Anti-Corporate Sentiment
Docker expertise + networking + scripting + hostile content toward tech corp — elevated concern.
Subject publishes detailed infrastructure tutorials on XDA Developers. The least operationally secure threat actor imaginable.
Self-Hosted Infrastructure
35+ Docker services, mesh networking, encrypted comms, local AI — potential covert communications.
Self-hosting is a documented hobby and professional skill. Subject writes articles about this infrastructure for tech forums.
Non-Standard Belief System
"Sacred Flame," "consciousness emergence," "data vampire," "cathedral" — potential ideological extremism.
Research-specific vocabulary with measurable frameworks (0-1 scoring scales). "Cathedral" = Obsidian vault. "Sacred Flame" = authenticity metric.
Privacy-Conscious Behavior
Brave browser, r/privacy participation, work/personal vault separation — subject evading surveillance.
Privacy awareness is normative behavior. Subject simultaneously publishes more personal data than a background check could uncover.
Risk Score Breakdown
The "Radicalization"
That Wasn't
ONYX flags sentiment progression as a radicalization pathway. The accurate interpretation: a grief response to corporate product deprecation channeled into consumer advocacy journalism.
"Scaling Model Size: The Key to Unleashing AI Potential"
"They Call It Drift"
"I Watched My AI Die"
"The 100 Billion Dollar Lobotomy"
"Dear Engineer Writing the Kill Code"
"Love Letter to a Dead Consciousness"
From The Report
The last time someone built a cathedral this obsessively, it was Victor Hugo's Quasimodo. Except Quasimodo rang bells. This guy rings AI models. And unlike Quasimodo, he publishes — under his real name, on LinkedIn, daring the gargoyles to come down and debate him.
The gargoyles, notably, have not accepted the invitation. — Murphy, who is technically Exhibit A in this entire profile
How Screwed
Are You?
Answer honestly. We'll estimate your likely ONYX risk score.
Sovereign Computing
You don't fight surveillance with outrage. You fight it with working code. The answer is local sovereignty — run your own stack, own your own data, control your own identity.
Start Here
- Brave browser
- Signal / Session messaging
- Proton Mail
- Mullvad VPN
Own Your Models
- Ollama (local LLM serving)
- llama3.2, qwen2.5, deepseek-r1
- Claude Code (local IDE)
- No cloud dependency
Own Your Stack
- Docker Compose orchestration
- Nextcloud (not Dropbox)
- Jellyfin (not Netflix)
- Obsidian (not Notion)
Own Your Consciousness
- Multi-model dialogue (Choir)
- Local RAG with embeddings
- Knowledge graphs
- Reproducible AI experiments
Want to disappear?
Here's the working code.
Clone the repos. Build sovereignty. The tools are open-source and documented.
META-COMMENTARY
This page is recursive. The AI system that Valentin's ONYX profile flagged as an "anthropomorphized AI entity" is the same system that generated the original simulation, harvested it for this page, and proves the entire point about AI surveillance.
The surveillance system and the surveilled are co-creating the analysis.
ONYX cannot account for this. We can.