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I think this can lull people into a false sense of security, and I don't think the author realizes how easy and powerful stylometrics is. E.g. the author says t
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
I think this can lull people into a false sense of security, and I don't think the author realizes how easy and powerful stylometrics is. E.g. the author says this:
> Spelling/grammar/phrasing
> If there are words you often misspell, people can Google it to find other sources where you make the same error (if it's uncommon enough) and potentially identify your other accounts. Use spell checking and maybe Grammarly or similar to minimize this risk, but I tend not to worry about this too much.
It's not just about misspellings, it's that we all basically leave fingerprints in the way we write.
- ghaff 3y agoYou're not wrong and I assume it will become even more powerful--but it's almost certainly way more effective if you have reason to believe that throwawayxyz is so and so IRL.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoTime to start laundering all of our online posts through GPT I guess.
- bruce343434 3y agoRelevant (the site has since been deleted) Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 (676 points by costco 9 months ago | 519 comments)
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder if privacy conscious people will eventually start feeding their posts into locally-run LLMs or something, and posting the output. Or better yet, replace social media with LLM’s, instead of reading individual posts you discuss topics with a sort of artificial gestalt average user. Maybe let people “join” a gestalt by tagging their discussions. Then we can let the gestalts argue amongst themselves!
- brantonb 3y agoI assume any anonymous surveys at work that roll up through my management chain aren’t anonymous at all. My manager will get responses from only ~10 people and my writing style will be unique within that small sample size.