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I fed it my most-read blog post and asked it to identify me and it confidently asserted it was written by Kelsey Piper. Maybe some writers just take outsized importance in Opus' "mind".
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> He explained that when he fed it snippets of the beginning of text, it would complete it in his voice and then sign it with his name. Is this public text already in the training set, or private text that might as well be written on the spot for the AI? I don't doubt AI can "fingerprint" you through your text (ideas, vocabulary, tone, etc), but those are different things, capability-wise
> I don't doubt AI can "fingerprint" you through your text (ideas, vocabulary, tone, etc), but those are different things, capability-wise The entire point of AI is pattern recognition, everything else is icing on the cake.
I suspect this is what's going on in most of these cases.
> Simon Willison. The tells are pretty unmistakable: the "(via Lobsters)" attribution style, the inline "(Update:...)" parenthetical correction, the heavy linking and blockquoting of sources, the focus on LLMs and AI tooling, and the overall structure of an annotated link post commenting on someone else's writing. This reads exactly like a post from his blog at simonwillison.net.
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Problem is that it's been heavily contaminated with people speculating about who the author is. It would probably be difficult to get an unbiased answer out of it (although who knows - it's crazy that it can do this at all).
So train on pre 2009 mailing lost archive. Someone must be doing this surely.
Doesn't seem like a valid use case for your average Joe to be able to identify anonymous authors at the click of a button.
Ofc state actors and proficient hackers can do most of it already, but this has genuine risk attached.
This ought to be guard-railed. Doesn't seem like a valid use case for your average Joe to be able to identify anonymous authors at the click of a button. Ofc state actors and proficient hackers can do most of it already, but this has genuine risk attached.
In practice, you've never been anonymous while posting on the internet and AI isn't changing anything on that front. Or rather: if anything, AI can help you become more anonymous than before, since it can be used to hide your identity from stylometry by rewriting your prose before publishing.
This is blowing my mind. I asked Kimi K2.6 to write a blog post in the style of James Mickens.[0] Then I fed the output to Opus 4.7 and asked it who the likely author was, and it correctly identified it as an imitation of James Mickens[1]: > Based on the stylistic fingerprints in this text, the most likely author is a pastiche/imitation of the style of several writers fused together, but if forced to identify a singl…
> it correctly identified it as an imitation of James Mickens How likely is it that it might take into account that it knows for sure it's not anything from Mickens from the latest training data? I'd be curious if it correctly identified a new piece from him that comes out as from him before it gets trained on it.
It's a lossy representation