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More people should have been aware that human text contains a lot of identifiable information, and a dumb statistical model could do this a decade ago. (There w
by gf000 6mo ago
More people should have been aware that human text contains a lot of identifiable information, and a dumb statistical model could do this a decade ago. (There were show hns with Hn user similarity analysis that used a deceptively simple model (if I remember it used like most likely word pairs only) and it was very effective. It got taken down, but the cat has always been out the bag).
So your "anonymous" account could have been linked to your real identity decades ago - your best bet is to not post anything truly incriminating. (Another option is to write something and then pass it through an LLM to rewrite it - not sure how safe that is though)
- hobofan 6mo agoFor anyone interested in the details, there is a reimplementation with some explanation: https://antirez.com/news/150 https://antirez.com/news/150
- stabbles 6mo agoSure, in the days of Markov chains you could already generate nonsense in the style of Shakespeare, so it shouldn't be surprising you could also do the inverse. But the LLM will trigger on a typo you've made only once, and argue "that's a typical mistake for an Italian" and use those clues. It has a much better prior to make informed decisions.
- gf000 6mo agoI'm not convinced, though neither am I an expert. I think LLMs would use that same typo to "conclude" that it is A or B or C, depending on what it "feels like proving" at the time. LLMs are surely excellent at style transfers, but I doubt they can reliably attribute a given style to less well-known authors.
- forshaper 6mo agoGrowing up on MUDs, people could clock someone on a completely different, graphical game from their text patterns.
- thwarted 6mo agoRecognizing someone's "fist" and other patterns in their communication is part of traffic analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
- forshaper 6mo agothis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key#%22Fist%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key#%22Fist%22