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I think the implication is this will become trivial and trivially automated, no human investigator needed. I bet there will be plugins in one year's time to rig
by warkdarrior 8mo ago
I think the implication is this will become trivial and trivially automated, no human investigator needed. I bet there will be plugins in one year's time to right click on a post and get a full report on who the author is.
- JohnMakin 8mo agoagreed and the new frontier here will probably be obfuscation by creating false positives with these same tools, but that kind of renders the web unusable in my mind.
- arctic-true 8mo agoI had this same thought. Seems fairly easy to just put off a strong false signal. If you don’t want anyone to know that you live in Finland, make a point to constantly mention how much you enjoy living in Peru.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8mo agoWouldn't it also become trivial to pretend to be another author?
- john_strinlai 8mo agoit may become more trivial to llm your comments/blog/whatever into a different "voice", but there is so much that can be used for de-anonymization that the llm-assisted technique dont address. for example, you may change the content of your comments, but if you only ever comment on the same topic, the topic itself is a signal. when you post (both day and time), frequency of posts, topics of interest, usernames (e.g. themes or patterns), and much more.