I call BS we can't even get AI models to determine if an AI write text. This as go to me some magic statistics
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Do y’all not write differently when you’re trying to be discreet on Blind?
The results, especially the high numbers stated in the news article (68% recall, 90% accuracy) are overestimated as their verification method (i.e., whether the LLM detected really the right account) come from matching veryfied accounts with a test set of anonymous accounts of which they knew the real name. They knew the real name bcs the persons had a public link to their LinkedIn in their "anonymous" profile (which was removed for the sake of testing wheter the LLm can match the two acfounts. That being said: a user who uses a pseudonym but links his/her account publically to a, say, LinkedIn account doesn't really care about anonymity and might hand out many more 'breadcrumbs' to follow than a truly anonymous account.
But I still think that also in the case of a fully anonymous account, people can be fingerprinted and matched with non-anonymous identities due to language, style etc. by a LLM.
And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.
How dare you claim that the hallucination engine hallucinates. The Billionaires have declared this heresy.
For those who don't know, we've been living in a dystopia since the 2000s.
Is this the first step towards using local LLMs for anonymity? 🫠 Always rephrasing each sentence somewhat. Truly dystopian stuff
Have they tried doing this for Satoshi Nakamoto yet?
The bright side - they can also be used to mask pseudonymous users. Guess how.
Yes, but don't use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.
I am so grateful for already having been paranoid about sharing anything identifying about me starting 15+ years ago.
I never uploaded a picture of myself. Never used my real name anywhere. I used different nicks for different branches of the Internet. A plethora of different email addresses etc.
People thought I was being overly careful and I probably missed a lot of things due to not using Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat but I can't say I regretted it at any point.
Doing those is not unreasonable, but not even having a bank account is way too far. I know of someone, who was later diagnosed with autism and doesn't have a job due to condition, initially didn't want a bank account for fear of online snooping.
Minimising digital footprint is perfectly fine, but trying to be off the grid and yet wants to participate in society and still engage in consumption is unreasonable. And this thinking isn't just on one person, I saw many users in Reddit privacy stressing themselves out in trying to completely wipe off their digital footprints. Unless you participate in political activities, or really just wants to live completely isolated in a forest, being off the grid is totally unreasonable.
It's not enough. You should use a different writing style for each website you write on.
Yeah. I got a hunch of that a while ago, while trying some "old" scenarios of de-anonymization we used to do by hand. Just asking questions and posting pictures got surprisingly accurate results. A single picture with (to me) no significant landmark could lead to localizing a specific part of a city, and that was using a local LLM with a relatively small model, running on a 16GB VRAM 4060Ti.
It is now time to remember fondly the time where the younger people were warned by older people to not post all their stuff online, not over-share, be cautious about strangers, etc. I'm not sure when we lost that, but oh boy, it's a festival.
Hmmm interesting. I’ve never used AI to try and find out stuff about myself. Maybe I’ll try. Just curious.
That's howb they get you
From a Facebook post I made on February 17th:
There are giant AI data firms that promise they can go through massive troves of data and pull out general and specific information from them. Information that is actionable and accurate. Give it 6 million data points and it'll find all the links and organize them for you and unmask hidden details that aren't visible to the naked eye.
Not one of those companies is stepping up to go through the publicly released Epstein files.
Today I asked AI to tell me which phone providers were available short by price and offers and it lied all the time, when I pointed it the AI corrected most of it but also removed some that were accurate for some reason.
It would have been quicker if I did that myself instead of ask AI, oh also didn't provide all companies.
Maybe those companies have better AI that can make no mistakes but I doubt it, I think the LLMs will lie and no one has time to check if they are correct.
AI info is never up to date. What where you expecting?
How come it ended up giving me the right answer albeit removing some previous right answers then? (removed a few companies for some reason)
Anyway that was a small and easy to check misinformation but if they have over 3 decades of online informational about me noway a person is going to confirm the LLM didn't bullshit it's way to an answer to satisfy the human.
These models aren't going to produce accurate information about the people they investigate, and it won't even matter if it's accurate. What "matters" is that their reports will add new layers of the facade of legitimacy to whatever story the authorities using them want to construct
There were reports of people trying to unredact the files almost immediately.
But that's not the same, is it?
I don't think you can do literally the same thing on the Epstein files. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you have in mind.
In theory, using the information and the released files and the information the public sources, it should be possible to figure out who those redacted names are based on writing style and other factors. We should be able to deanonymize.
Hmm. Maybe but it is not the same problem as those discussed in OP. I also have some doubts about the paper, but that's another story. You could try it out?
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As a registered Republican woman from Texas with five children and two dogs, let me just say that I am astonished!
As true as my name is Brenda and my last name is also Brenda. And so is my husband, Brenda. It is a hot day in Texas America today, I'm going to grill one of our dogs for dinner. It is a hot day republican tradition to grill a dog. Hence the name Hot Dogs and the playful name Wieners, named after wiener dogs. Oh lordy bless you heart yeehaa.
Me too. I thought I was safe as a Ottoman Empire expatriate living in Arrakis! I don't want LLMs to connect this account to my pseudonymous mommy blog where I write about my three children who might exist but could be delusions of my untreated schizophrenia.
Oh, WE EXIST, mommy! Let me assure you, as one of said imaginary schizophrenia babies. Currently shacking up in Miami with my new wife I just met cranking my hog at Sturgis.
It seems that i, the original Unidan, will unfortunately need to create even more alts to escape being found out. Blast!
It seems that i, also the original Unidan, will unfortunately need to create even more alts to escape being found out. Blast!
We talking jackdaws/crows?
I don't believe this! As a fumgrian living as a would be dead camoose off Mt. Kabul, I am overjizzed that AI is reading all my pornhub comments.
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Kind of obvious. If you're a highschool teacher and you used to be a photographer. You also volunteer as a fireman. You live in France. You have 2 daughters. In 2022 you asked about repairs on your honda civic.
All off this can be amassed from different posts on facebook or reddit. There'll be just a few people that fit this profile.
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