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.
US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
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#102Of course, the article just says they're planning to do this. It doesn't say it's going to work, and our closest examples, forensic science like handwriting and blood spatters and polygraphs and all that, generally don't actually work.
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#103Plans? 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 wouldn't doubt for a second that NSA is already using shit like this for their global passive adversary thing
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#106Can’t I just feed my missive into an AI that reshapes the language but retains the data?
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#107If I want to write anonymously, I cycle my text through Google Translate multiple times and keep all the grammatical errors intact. So, English > Italian, and then Italian > French, then back to English. I also pass it into Hemingway[0] first to make my text lean and non-superfluous. [0] https://hemingwayapp.com/
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Your example doesn't match the principles you highlighted. Obviate->remove is replacing a perfect-fit with a generic alternative. "Obviate" was neither a word salad nor complex, it was straight up (marginally) better. This was a tradeoff to appeal to people whose vocabulary is narrow, not improve comprehension.
Expecting most of the English people to know obviate is pushing it, for someone using English as a second language it’s just adding complexity.
It’s about aiming where you expect the average reader to be.
Because you know the word don’t fall into the trap of assuming everyone else does.
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#109The 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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#110They demonized China for doing things like that Now they'll copy China I find it very funny
> Now they'll copy China
Rinse and repeat.