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I find it absolutely, utterly, and completely implausible that the intelligence community just now started to research this possibility. It's been an obvious id
by jerf 4y ago
I find it absolutely, utterly, and completely implausible that the intelligence community just now started to research this possibility. It's been an obvious idea for decades now, and the tech has visibly obviously been roughly up to the task for decades as well. The last couple of years may have given an incremental improvement but it is completely implausible to me that they don't have workable solutions to this already. It's not like the system is useless to them until it 100% fingers exactly one person.
- 3pt14159 4y agoDon't believe it jerf. It's obvious that this isn't the cutting edge that USG has to offer. Just a random department re-inventing the wheel. Disclaimer: Worked on CIA / FBI stuff two decades ago.
- TheJoeMan 4y agoI know that someone in the intelligence community was giving a lecture at the University of Florida on using UF’s fancy new donated Nvidia cluster to do this analysis.
- gaitthe2ndface 4y agoThis sort of writing style analysis has absolutely been used to ID pseudonymous / anonymous individuals online for over a decade. The new twist seems to be using "AI" instead of more traditional algorithms. Personally, I would expect that to make the process more error-prone, but it makes sense to try.