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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

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Re: Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

#82

After skimming through the article: Why not just write everything through an AI? (to obfuscate your "style")

Article:

> To avoid this, you will probably need to intentionally write in a very different style than you usually do (or to have AIs rewrite all your prose for you, but, ugh, that’s not a world I look forward to living in).

I agree. The amount of vague and cliche'd AI writing I read on the daily is already exhausting enough.

It would be interesting if you could train a model to sprinkle random red herrings throughout your text in a minimally disruptive way. But I fear you might have to stretch the definition of "minimally disruptive" to make it robust against detection.

Re: Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

#87

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> Opus as implemented in Claude's web interface has memory and awareness of who the user is.

Kelsey knows this:

To make sure it wasn’t somehow feeding my account information to Claude even in Incognito Mode, I asked a friend to run these tests on his computer, and he received the same result; I also got the same result when I tested it through the API.

When I tested this with my own writing several LessWrong commenters tested it with the snippets I provided (see comments) and saw that it could identify me: https://www.jefftk.com/p/automated-deanonymization-is-here

Re: Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

#88
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Could this be just memory? Not clear it actually isn’t

"I did not have memory enabled, nor did I have information about me associated with my account; I did these tests in Incognito Mode. To make sure it wasn’t somehow feeding my account information to Claude even in Incognito Mode, I asked a friend to run these tests on his computer, and he received the same result; I also got the same result when I tested it through the API." Given those precautions if it is just memor…

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Re: Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

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post #87

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> Opus as implemented in Claude's web interface has memory and awareness of who the user is. Kelsey knows this: To make sure it wasn’t somehow feeding my account information to Claude even in Incognito Mode, I asked a friend to run these tests on his computer, and he received the same result; I also got the same result when I tested it through the API. When I tested this with my own writing several LessWrong commente…

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