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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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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. […

I someday hope for style transfer for language, so I can write a paragraph and convert it to Michael Creighton's writing style.

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

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post #81
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.

I use em dashes — though with space — and also ellipses… Also 2×4s (that are actually 1½×3½), where 2 ≠ 4 above −270°C, and footnotes¹ and all that. ¹ There.

Great. Even easier then

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

your citation still doesn't say much, just that most are at least still "preparing" or have rolled out a limited pilot, which is what I said originally

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

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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.

You can probably spot me at work because I use really simple words.

I write obviate then I re-read and replace it with “removes the need to do $foo.

Some writers at work forget that the goal of the written word is to communicate to the reader not impress them with word salad.

I regard it the same as clever code (note: not the same as complex code) - written for the author not the reader.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Saying "they" are oppressing an Apple VP is an interesting contrast to the next post over which says Apple (FAANG) is part of "they".

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

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post #17

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. […

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