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Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts?
by lagt_t 3y ago
Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts?
- gettodachoppa 3y agoIt's a spectrum, not a binary. They may not care about HN posts because: 1. We're anonymous here (by default) 2. You can't be fingerprinted from your HN posts the way you can be with your unique voice
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoVoice makes a very bad fingerprint. Especially when you know you can simulate it from like 2 seconds recording with AI.
- I_am_tiberius 3y agoI'm pretty sure hackernews posts can be used as a unique fingerprint, especially by a party who collects sensitive text information like chatbot conversations.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoOn point 2, someone posted a tool a while back called Stylometry which is now sadly defunct, but had some interesting feedback and seemed to be pretty successful at identifying “alts”. I’m sure that the tech has improved since then and would be only more accurate than it was a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
- lagt_t 3y agoYou can be anonymous in openai too. Your voice is a terrible fingerprint with today's models.
- simoncion 3y ago> Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts? That doesn't seem related to the point? Do you disagree that "Posting on a public Internet forum (such as HN)" is (other than the "communicating information to other people" aspect) _radically_ different than "Talking one-on-one to someone in person without any recording devices present"? If you do disagree, then there's no way we can have a even vaguely productive conversation on the topic.