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I remember there was a (rather controversial) tool posted here a few years ago, which used textual analysis and stylometry to find “similar users.” So you could
by chatmasta 2y ago
I remember there was a (rather controversial) tool posted here a few years ago, which used textual analysis and stylometry to find “similar users.” So you could type in someone’s username and find their likely alt accounts. It was creepily accurate - or at least that’s what I heard from a friend who has an alt :)
Could this tool be repurposed for that? Presumably the “map” rendered in each user’s avatar could be encoded as a vector and then compared to that of another user.
EDIT: Wait, I just realized it already does this… (or at least I think so - it’s not immediately obvious if “Explore More Users” is ranked by similarity.)
- robg 2y agoInteresting! Seems creepy to me too, as you can find it would love to understand how we can do better.
- lolinder 2y ago> Could this tool be repurposed for that? Presumably the “map” rendered in each user’s avatar could be encoded as a vector and then compared to that of another user. It's probably less likely to work because people often use alts to participate in discussions that they wouldn't want to associate the primary identity with. Whether that be discussions about their employer, about politics, or something else, the subjects an alt particulates in will likely be different. Style works because few people are capable of fundamentally altering their style even if they tried.
- nstart 2y agoMy final year project in uni was a tool to detect plagiarism by analyzing whether parts of an assignment had been outsourced to anyone else (basically did one author write the document on their own). Or if two projects by the same student were actually written by one person. For what was at the time an extremely naive implementation of various stylometric methods it worked surprisingly well. Even I was shocked when I managed to demonstrate the tool working. People should read about this branch of studies if they care at all about anonymity online.
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoI would be amused to see whether or not you could simply mask all of your comments by filtering them through a commodity LLM or not. I would assume so.
- chris_st 2y agomixtral-8b: "It would be entertaining to find out if you could conceal all of your remarks by running them through a run-of-the-mill LLM. I suspect that you could." nemotron-4-340b: "One might find it intriguing to observe if you have the capability to disguise your statements by utilizing a common LLM as a filter. It's plausible to believe that you could." gemma-2-27b got verbose on us: Here are a few ways to rewrite the sentence "I would be amused to see whether or not you could effectively disguise your comments by utilizing a common LLM" to reflect different styles: *More formal:* * "It is hypothesized that a commodity LLM could be employed to effectively obfuscate your comments." * "Utilizing a commodity LLM for comment anonymization is a plausible strategy." *More casual:* * "I wonder if you could fool a regular LLM with your comments?" * "Could a basic LLM make your comments look like they came from someone else?" *More skeptical:* * "While it's possible, it's unlikely a commodity LLM could effectively mask your comments to the point of complete anonymity." * "Are you sure a simple LLM can truly hide your identity? It might not be enough to protect you." *More direct:* * "Using a commodity LLM for comment anonymization is a viable option." * "Can commodity LLMs effectively anonymize your comments? Probably." The best way to rewrite the sentence depends on the context and the tone you want to achieve. ---- All of the above courtesy of perplexity.ai's playground.
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoWhat a fun test!
- fngjdflmdflg 2y agoI believe this was it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
- lettergram 2y agoI built a system that did this years ago https://x.com/austingwalters/status/1041894765439201281 https://x.com/austingwalters/status/1041894765439201281 Ironically, it doesn’t use embeddings even though at the time and since I’ve basically exclusively used embeddings. Main issue with embeddings is they don’t change well overtime (you can adjust, but not as easily as other methods). Language is filled with industry specific acronyms and models are generally not great at adapting to changing phrasing and acronyms. Anyway, eventually decided to put some more pieces together and built it into a company - https://ipcopilot.ai https://ipcopilot.ai Now we discover ideas on hacker news for our demo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ymgh-ZDiI&pp=ygUKSXAgY29waWxvdA%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ymgh-ZDiI&pp=ygUKSXAgY29waWx...
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- m463 2y agoI think it would be interesting to, sort of, summarize users. Like user123 is moderately funny, articulate, interested in typescript and web development, and rated high on conscientiousness and extraversion.
- bloopernova 2y agoIt'd be interesting to see how the LLM sees us, vs how we see ourselves, vs how other HN folks see us.