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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
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#253so if they put their linkedin account on their HN account, we can figure out who they are.... genius stuff, AI really is changing the landscape all right
" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's a pity that you didn't make your point more thoughtfully because it's one of the few comments in the thread so far that has anything to do with the actual paper, and even got a response from one of the authors. That's good! Unfortunately, badn…
if you come covered in your excrement, expect people to give you a wide berth
Re: Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume one's vocabulary is basically a fingerprint, even if one doesn't use unique turns of phrase. Domain knowledge just leaks in and we aren't conscious of it being identifiable.
It also geographic. There's a bunch of quizzes online where in 10 or 20 questions, it can tell you exactly what area in the US somebody is from. It comes down to the terms you use that you might not even realize are not universal. Highway vs freeway, what you call a sugary carbonated drink, and so on. OTOH I think a lot of these methods don't matter that much because of plausible deniability. Stylometry and other stu…
>OTOH I think a lot of these methods don't matter that much because of plausible deniability. Stylometry and other stuff processes is always probabilistic, and can be dismissed.
i've come to realize, often the "opressor" or whatever party i imagine using this kind of thing against me, they do not care about being exactly <right. i will not be able to lawyer my way out. if something is actionable, action will be taken. and i'm not the one deciding if its actionable
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#255I made. this comment three days before this study cam out and some one made fun of me:
> Anonymity is a myth. I am sure by now an LLM can figure out who you are and where you live by your HN posts alone."
>> iamnothere 3 days ago | parent [–] >> Do it then
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#256Somebody I know irl has figured out I'm me here on Hackernews, based on the fact that my writing style here matches my verbal style. Fingerprinting people based on their words is one of the things I actually expect LLMs to be really absurdly good at.
Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is very import: you don't know how the cancelation culture will be in 20 years. I like to use the example of a guy who did a blackface in a party back in 2000's. Although reprehensible, was not commom-sense racism back then. Today society sees it as completely unacceptable. Eventually that guy became prime minister of Canada and things went pretty bad when that photo surfaced decades later. Is it far to judge so…
Only idiots don’t care about it historical context.
That’s false if you consider an idiot to be a person that can’t understand why it’s important. In this context, we can see companies selling the exact service we’re talking about to hr departments. Every bit of data they can get from social media sites to data brokers of all stripes or whatever else and assigns generic employability scores.
I’ll bet most of the people in those companies have considered this problem more than nearly anyone else — because they need to figure out how to get people to buy it anyway, and try to spackle over the parts that give people pause. The reason they don’t care is because it’s what’s in between them and money. There are intelligent criminals out there. They aren’t idiots, they’re just assholes.
Re: Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
#258This is terrible, though as ohters have pointed out (e.g. @john_strinlai), not unexpected. It immediately reminded me of the ACLU Pizza video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33CIVjvYyEk
and now the identification part would not require a state-mandated database.