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You really don't need AI to do this. Collect enough data points and you can fingerprint basically anyone using very old fashioned techniques. AI doesn't really
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
You really don't need AI to do this. Collect enough data points and you can fingerprint basically anyone using very old fashioned techniques. AI doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
- dschuetz 3y agoAI would need far less data points to achieve an acceptable result, and maybe even be able of fingerpointing, not just fingerprinting. Just wait and see how the data broker bros start selling AI assisted data mining for ads. Big tech is doing that already. It's mind boggling how everyone seems to be just OK with that.
- didntcheck 3y agoWhat AI can sometimes add is automatic feature extraction. Rather than having a to have a human explicitly think "I bet we can identify people via $x" and writing bespoke code to do it. E.g. this has been the big deal with AI in medical diagnostics, that it can look at the same data a very skilled human doctor sees, and still manage to discover something that the human couldn't, due to unnoticed features
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYeah but we've got old techniques for that too, Latent Dirichlet Allocation etc.