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I finetuned T5, a text-to-text transformer, with a loss function based on the cosine similarity of any given text with statements made by individual HN users. It's like Dreambooth but for text. I have been posting under 40 different alt accounts that approximate the top users of this site textually and match them within an 80th percentile. AMA.
I always assumed that some actors had this capability and acted accordingly. The existence of a publicly available tool merely democratizes this power. Anyone seeking complete and perpetual anonymity should have been practicing better opsec from the beginning.
HN should more to support privacy. Allow anonymous posts instead of forcing users into the pattern of throwaways that are linkable. Karma right now also makes it hard to use a throwaway per comment. getting downvoted on a first post might lock your account for some hours, so you are forced to build up karma with lots of posts. + give users a way to delete their profile once posted. If not whole comment history, at le…
I always assumed that some actors had this capability and acted accordingly. The existence of a publicly available tool merely democratizes this power. Anyone seeking complete and perpetual anonymity should have been practicing better opsec from the beginning.
What opsec measures could one take against language analysis? Everyone has a particular style of writing, and the only way of hiding it I can think of is not writing anything at all.
Be aware that it's almost impossible to defeat it, and act accordingly. More exactly, if you think that a tech-capable state actor is coming after you then you should be outside the reach of where said state actor holds its monopoly of power. Real text-anonymity is gone for good.
I always assumed that some actors had this capability and acted accordingly. The existence of a publicly available tool merely democratizes this power. Anyone seeking complete and perpetual anonymity should have been practicing better opsec from the beginning.
To make a crude analogy, what if I punched you in the face to demonstrate that you should consider learning kung fu? Or perhaps to indicate that, if a corporation wanted to, they could hire people to assault you and there would be little you could do about it? At the end of the day you’ve got a busted nose either way. Are you really better off?
Perhaps we should just iterate. What does this post reveal about HN? Discuss.
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What opsec measures could one take against language analysis? Everyone has a particular style of writing, and the only way of hiding it I can think of is not writing anything at all.
use the same words and logics as everyone / some mainstream show like SNL ? Or force yourself to use completely different words every time ? Be open minded ? Comment under different posts to hide your interests ? Use short sentences ? Use newspeak ? Copy the features of other users ? I also talk to ppl from various backgrounds. I could prove you why you need to vote for any candidate, thanks to the logics of coworker…
Would only work if enough people did it. Otherwise all your accounts will stand out as being "the newspeak person"
Btw, how is having an account system without any option to close or delete the account - and which might contain your real name as username - compatible with the GDPR?
I finetuned T5, a text-to-text transformer, with a loss function based on the cosine similarity of any given text with statements made by individual HN users. It's like Dreambooth but for text. I have been posting under 40 different alt accounts that approximate the top users of this site textually and match them within an 80th percentile. AMA.
Wait, you're posting AI-generated spam under 40 different accounts? That sounds very unethical.
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Wait, you're posting AI-generated spam under 40 different accounts? That sounds very unethical.
It's a text to text model. You train it on a sentence from the user phrased differently against their real sentence. Then you can write what you want, and the transformer alters the style to match another identity.