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> most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public Most people do not think that personal details they didn’t intend to share in their writ
by swatcoder 3y ago
> most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public
Most people do not think that personal details they didn’t intend to share in their writing can be surreptitiously deduced from things like their word choice and phrasing.
It’s true, and people need to learn about and consider it, but no, most people have no idea that it’s really possible or how far it can go.
Their intent is to share what they intended to share. Efforts to go beyond that — whether through LLM’s, earlier data mining techniques, or Holmes/Poirot-like observation — are precisely “violating privacy expectations”
- batch12 3y agoWhile playing with semantic categorization, I also found that it's also what you write about and how you write (seems obvious, but I wanted to confirm). I took a year of hn comments and compared my previous account to my current. It was in the top 20 ranked by similarity (out of something like 60k) just by building a custom 'fingerprint' for each user.