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So we'll have AI that can mask writer's identity in about three months.
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"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.
Plans? I assumed lots of people were already working on this. There's already a lot of training data out there, and I suspect most users can be identified by use of a handful of uncommon trigrams and sentence stats. I know you can recognize things I've written at work because they have real em dashes—people rarely type with those.
The 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. […
AFAIK there is quite a bit of examples from security labs where malware authors aren't necessarily identified but at least fingerprinted based on naming conventions, patterns they use across multiple projects etc...
That sort of fingerprinting could expand to correlating someone's anonymous software projects to other examples of code elsewhere (ex: if they contribute to source available stuff).
re: the example project you mention specifically, it does feel like using tools like that almost as a linter for natural language would be a fingerprint in itself.
EDIT: As far as OPSEC goes, a fun tidbit. A friend of mine identified a PR I submitted anonymously to them, simply because of the style of PR comments I made.
Don't talk bad about your government, folks. We're going to be entering a new age of technological tyranny.
Furthermore I consider games like poker or Magic the Gathering unplayable, that is the extent to which there is literally absolutely no privacy.
But don't mind me, just got lobotomized is all.
People have been doing this for decades.
What 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.
Trouble is if you are a revolutionary leader of some kind you are probably going to be saying new things that no-one else talks about - which renders both anonspeak and the ai detection kind of redundant.
I guess the application for this then is in the interim to stop people or online groups becoming revolutionary by tracking and deradicalising them with targeted manipulation.