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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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It is called 社会信用体系 . Try and keep up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Try and read. Where exactly does it say it’s ever progressed beyond trials and announcements ie implemented at scale - oh it doesn’t

seek and ye shall find

https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...

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

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I built something like that more than a decade ago to identify alter-egos in an online game from in-game chat. It was reasonably successful and I thought about commercial applications for it, but ultimately decided most things that could be used for are creepy or evil. I remember hearing DARPA was actively seeking research in the field around that time. In principle, I'm not absolutely against my software being part…

How sophisticated was your system? It sounds like you used cutting edge NLP techniques at the time.

I'd describe it as fairly simple. It was just a classifier where each account name was a category: there was no fancy NLP. It used a single feature type and an algorithm from a well-known family. I don't want to say what either was lest I further proliferate the technique.

I cross checked using statistically improbable words, which helped confirm or exclude weak matches.

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

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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. […

Aren't GANs all about creating both the generator and the discriminator? Seems to me you can also build the "reverser" quite easily.

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

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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.

My first cynical take was that this will be used for "hunch laundering." There could be no indication that user A is an alias for user B, other than someone's hunch, but getting a computer to say that they match might be good enough to get a warrant when someone's hunch wouldn't be. It would be similar to having drug sniffing dogs affirm their handlers' feelings.

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Try and read. Where exactly does it say it’s ever progressed beyond trials and announcements ie implemented at scale - oh it doesn’t

seek and ye shall find https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...

thank you. the most specific citation I could find in your link was this, regarding the 80% rollout statistic:

>As of December 2020, more than 80 percent of all the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipal cities had issued or were preparing to issue local credit laws and regulations.

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

The government appears more worried about managing dissent than anything else, like what actual threats people are talking about.

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seek and ye shall find https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...

thank you. the most specific citation I could find in your link was this, regarding the 80% rollout statistic: >As of December 2020, more than 80 percent of all the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipal cities had issued or were preparing to issue local credit laws and regulations.

I’m quite sure they are trying to automate this as well.

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

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I'm old so I've been planning on this for awhile. I have a folder that contains all my personal data: photos and videos, journal, all my saved social media posts, all my emails and all my anonymous handles leading to everything I've ever written online. My thinking is an AI could create a reasonable facsimile of myself that my descendants could have a conversation with. I think it'd be better than a autobiography since Joyce Carol Oates convinced me by something she tweeted that no one reads autobiographies, not even close family, unless you are famous.

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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.

I forget that they're called em dashes -- but I also love to use them to offset what I say from other people.

They've broken more than one Python script of mine. That'll make you declare everything UTF-8.
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