I wonder how things like Gmail's smart auto-complete would affect these efforts.
US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
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Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#12I'm sure it will not be used in malicious way
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#13They demonized China for doing things like that Now they'll copy China I find it very funny
"How dare they do it before us"
USA next decade:
"Posting bad things on twitter reduces your credit score"
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#14They demonized China for doing things like that Now they'll copy China I find it very funny
Developing a technology that can do that doesn't infringe on anyone's liberties.
Failing to develop that technology, leaving it to China or some other authoritarian state to do, would be more likely to harm liberties, wouldn't it?
Seems like you're just "damned if you do, damned if you don't"-ing, no offense.
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#15Wouldn't it be more accurate to say it links anonymous writings together? If you don't have any writings under your real name there's nothing it can do except indicate two pseudonyms belong to the same person.
You’re assuming they don’t have copies of every email you ever sent…
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#16They demonized China for doing things like that Now they'll copy China I find it very funny
"How dare they do it before us" USA next decade: "Posting bad things on twitter reduces your credit score"
Credit scores are not determined by the government. If a credit ratings agency took that step, it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness.
Don't confuse that with "social credit" systems, whereby China prevents you from riding trains if you say something naughty.
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#17The best protection against this type of de-anonymization is to take measures now, while you still have time, to prevent it. It is possible to change the style of one's writing by using a language model which alters the original text in order to create a new piece with a different style. For example, to translate your text into the grandiose and flowing diction of a bygone era, you might consider the project below.
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#18So we'll have AI that can mask writer's identity in about three months.
It'll be AIs all the way down.
Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
#19What we need is a speaking style anonymizer. Like a language translator except it translates your text into some kind of stylistic uniformness.
We're flexible on that format. Anything legible and relatively easy to translate into. Call it ANONSPEAK.
It will probably be, aesthetically, horrible.