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Ingenious idea. At the very least, this is just about finding people who write like us, the same way we seek those with similar tastes (music...) How long befo

Ingenious idea. At the very least, this is just about finding people who write like us, the same way we seek those with similar tastes (music...) How long before large commercial indexers start offering an efficient (AI based ?) stylometry to agencies and states ? wait... do you think the NSA is already doing this?

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
They would be silly not to ( apart from creepish profiling of an entire globe population you also get to potentially identify bots ). We all have mannerisms that can easily 'betray us' online. I honestly thought my writing style is more unique, but as it turns out it is somewhat common.
- CrypticShift 4y ago
  > I honestly thought my writing style is more unique You just showed another possible use case for this kind of tools: "How unique is my writing style ?"
- sitkack 4y ago
  It isn't writing style, but more of phrase selection. If you lean on the same phrases (n-grams), then you will be very very close in a high dimensional space. Colloquialisms are the biggest tell, you should eschew them.
woodruffw 4y ago
Stylometry is an old hat technique; you can assume that intelligence services around the globe regularly apply it. (Statistical stylometry is a little newer and more rigorous than manual stylometry, which essentially involved a human being's judgement call around the similarity of documents.)
- CrypticShift 4y ago
  What about "deep leaning" stylometry ?
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone has tried to apply ML to stylometry. Statistical stylometry is already petty effective, as demonstrated by this site.
  - nephanth 4y ago
    https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=deep+stylometry&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=deep... Yields some results This one seems pretty interesting https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/5/838 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/5/838

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago

They would be silly not to ( apart from creepish profiling of an entire globe population you also get to potentially identify bots ). We all have mannerisms that can easily 'betray us' online. I honestly thought my writing style is more unique, but as it turns out it is somewhat common.

CrypticShift 4y ago
> I honestly thought my writing style is more unique You just showed another possible use case for this kind of tools: "How unique is my writing style ?"
sitkack 4y ago
It isn't writing style, but more of phrase selection. If you lean on the same phrases (n-grams), then you will be very very close in a high dimensional space. Colloquialisms are the biggest tell, you should eschew them.

woodruffw 4y ago

Stylometry is an old hat technique; you can assume that intelligence services around the globe regularly apply it. (Statistical stylometry is a little newer and more rigorous than manual stylometry, which essentially involved a human being's judgement call around the similarity of documents.)

CrypticShift 4y ago
What about "deep leaning" stylometry ?
- woodruffw 4y ago
  I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone has tried to apply ML to stylometry. Statistical stylometry is already petty effective, as demonstrated by this site.
- nephanth 4y ago
  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=deep+stylometry&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=deep... Yields some results This one seems pretty interesting https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/5/838 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/5/838