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LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 48 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Fuuuuuck i almost forgot about digital fingerprints. To all of those unacquainted: the way you type, spell, text, etc. The words you use, the phrases, the grammar--everything, ends up as your digital print. Just because your username changes, doesn't mean your typing does. This is how you will be tracked. Clearing cookies, using different names, dusting your tracks, this all helps, but when you type the same, it's still you.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm curious if they'd be able to ID me, I haven't posted under my government name in almost 20 years and quit every public social network other than this one almost as long ago.

    I'd be impressed if it can match me with my other profiles at all, but mostly because it'd mean that they're feeding a lot of spectacularly old data into their models and/or pulling from private sources they should never have had access to.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'd be shocked if they weren't feeding in old data. Anything can be training data if you're desperate enough, including early 2000's Myspace pages scraped by the way back machine.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The wayback machine is too lossy and would have missed most of my written corpus, I'm talking about finding me in the full Twitter firehose from prior to 2008 and accounting for the fact that my writing style shifts notably with new slang.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What do you propose? Use AI for writing so it always sounds the same, for everyone?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    treat your online activity like you would treat every other activity. The way you type and converse on like Lemmy or whatever is like the way you would talk with friends. very casual, shooting the shit, being blunt etc. Now would you talk to your grand mother or the pope or your boss the same way you'd shoot the shit with your buddies? probably not. Would you talk to your mom the same way you talk in an average CoD Lobby? doubtful. LInkedin, Facebook, etc anything that is tied to your actual name is what I call "granny speak" type on there like you're talking to the most innocent pure soul in the world. Lemmy/Reddit/whatever where you utilize a screename that's your gutter talk time.

    I mean this is how I've always done it even back in the late 90s where it was constantly drilled into us that NO ONE must know who you are online. This from the days when EVERYONE had a screenname and NO ONE used their actual name online.

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