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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

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Post by brippalcharrid »

alexbiet wrote: post #4
ezekg wrote: post #2

Don't talk bad about your government, folks. We're going to be entering a new age of technological tyranny.

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Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by PointA2B »

Content marketers in the digital marketing space commonly put blog posts through "spinners" that take your text and modify it through replacing words/phrases with similar equivalents. This lets you take one article and turning it into 5-10+ unique ones, even though they still discuss the same things. It would be a shame if a service like this was marketed towards those interested in privacy, it would probably break this entire system...

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by ezekg »

brippalcharrid wrote: post #31
alexbiet wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@ezekg, GovAI has detected unlawful talk posted from your account. Your CBDC account is locked for 48 hours.

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> We're All In This Together.

Sent chills down my spine.

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by lajamerr »

dehrmann wrote: post #8

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 next step after is to build an AI to convert your style of writing to another person's style.

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by frozenlettuce »

The thing is, AI is a good mask for a "backend process that you don't need to explain how it works". Assuming that the US government already has private conversations on multiple content and messaging platforms, this AI will provide the perfect excuse to connecting a blog post with a given id in a process.

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by Grimburger »

throwamon wrote: post #23

Didn't they already use something like this to supposedly unmask Satoshi Nakamoto?

Nakamoto Satoshi has not been unmasked despite the very short list of people capable/interested in creating what he made.

Stylometric analysis did suggest a single person on that list. The easier thing for governments to do at the time would have been to just spin up a node in the first year and look at the IP addresses.

He had no desire to become known back then and likely never will. It's only more dangerous now compared to the threat before of being locked up like the LibertyCoin guy (who just got released a year ago).

NS is happy to stay in the shadows, nearly everyone respects that decision especially in a world of crypto scams and ponzis. Surprised they never linked the domain name purchase to him though.

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by egberts1 »

hardnose wrote: post #16
xani_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Or that VP of Apple quoting from a movie called “Arthur” at an auto show resulting in him being fired.

It has begun right here in the United States and we just are oblivious to these new dastardly form of social credits.

Re: US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

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Post by ElementaryElk »

PointA2B wrote: post #33

Content marketers in the digital marketing space commonly put blog posts through "spinners" that take your text and modify it through replacing words/phrases with similar equivalents. This lets you take one article and turning it into 5-10+ unique ones, even though they still discuss the same things. It would be a shame if a service like this was marketed towards those interested in privacy, it would probably break t…

I’ve found plenty of articles that seem to be run through these spinners, but hand made corrections are likely to be necessary (unless it can be automated with ML for example) as you can almost always tell that something is odd based on context lacking word choices
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