They’re kind of vague about it but it sounds to me like you’d have to have some stuff posted online under your real name for it to find and match to. So if you’ve only ever posted things under various pseudonyms in social media, etc. it could match those up to each other, but not to your real identity.
The best way to remain anonymous is to be somebody else on the internet, ideally many somebodies. Also, don’t use social media or if you must, don’t set it to “public”. So much of this “OSINT” bullshit is just googling to find public social media profiles.
Can confirm
Wow. You found him even faster than an AI.
My name is fuck-ai and my favorite food is fried ai which is also the national dish of fuck-ai-ville where I currently live
This man’s name?
Albert Einstein
Source: Anti-anonymity LLM
Bullshit, AI would just make stuff up.
Despite that I have been Ramen Junkie online for over half my life, ChatGPT still sees the dude who owns the ramen noodle shop in New York first, so sucks to be him I guess.
The article barely mentions this, and I haven’t seen comments here mentioning it, but a huge factor in determining identities is one’s writing style. In fact, analyzing the way people speak and write is its own science (linguistic forensics) and is also used by law enforcement (though can realistically be done by anyone with OSINT and basic understanding of individual linguistic patterns.) Dead giveaways are especially if you consistently misspell a certain word or use a certain emoticon or uncommon phrase or word, it’s like a linguistic footprint. If Andy123 on Reddit and XxwhateverxX both spell appearance as appearence and both say booyah and both spell :) as (:, then it is much easier to tell that they may be the same person. This is something that you must be aware of, as well as giving out personal information like country of origin, amount of pets, place of work, etc.
Excellent point.
For very long, I have thought vocabulary alone would be enough footprint to ID someone. If you had enough sample of their writing ofc. It’s like browser fingerprints. The words you use, and how often you use them, is a fingerprint. As UnknowableNight points out, some patterns are very unique, nearly enough alone. Yet even without those, you have enough signals. Sentence length. Whether you spell colour or color. Regional expressions. Word use frequency. Whether you bring in vocabulary used mostly in a certain profession, like medicine or law. Whether you use more paragraphs or more single liners. None alone are enough. All together, with the 100 other ones smart people can figure out? Probably enough.
Long ago it would be too much effort, only good for targeted cases. Today? Maybe you can do it dragnet, seeking to ID every person who writes online.
I do not know if that happens today. Yet I do not see anything to stop it.
There was a dude on reddit that bigot watch kept nailing because of that.
Dude used the same patterns and words, thinking that switching user names would matter.
If I ever write a manifesto, I’m running it through a jar jar binks and UWU filter first
Damn :3 I am fucked :3
So run everything we say through a LLM and get it to reword it?
If you run it locally this would be fine. Mathematically the result would be more like a hash of your writing style; still unique but difficult to determine the origin, y’know?
No, no, but try to recognise and change some of your writing habits.
But I use ai to write everything online 😀 how will they identify then? 😂
This is why it’s important to seed your online activity with deliberate false identifiers. That way, no one with bad intentions will learn that I work for the ICE office in Santa Fe, and always attend church every Sunday (when football isn’t on, of course).
I work for ICE in San Diego. I heard about you Santa Fe cattle rustlers.
I can’t take it anymore. I am tired of all the countermeasures, and see how my attempts to avoid the AI overlords have always been fragile. The only escape now is honesty.
- My name is Dan Smith
- I live in Maine
- I eat recycled dog farts for breakfast
Same bestie, I work for ICE in Santa Fe too and I’m a devout Christian and a mother of 6 😌
it wish that there was a privacy possum like app that pretended to be you to sign up for things that you never touch, look at or visit.
This is a good idea. And a good use for AI.
No, no, everything I’ve ever said on the internet about myself was true!
But, what if I use my real name and just lie all the time?
sorry, i posted the above comment from my southsamurai@sh.itjust.works account i made to lie all the time.
It should have been posted with this account :/
There’s only twelve lemmy users anyway.
ok. I confess. My name is not Manne. Its Johnson.
Read and spot clues: The AI looks at your posts and pulls out little hints about you. Things you that are part of your personality. Like it can see that this person talks a lot about coding games in Python, loves Marvel movies, complains about school in Seattle, and types with a certain style.
I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack.
I also live in Florida and love to jet ski. It was great seeing you in person last Saturday. Wow, what a day.
Who else was there? Must have been many of us. Just jet skiing in Florida.
**this person tries to avoid tracking by poisoning data set with obviously false info**
this is how to get put on the especially watchlist
Do you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain?
I live in Florida. I live in Florida.I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack.
My other name online is Spartacus.
I’m brian and so is my wife.
My son’s name is also Spartacus.
My mother’s maiden name was also Spartacus!
I believe my line is “me three”?
I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I live in Florida. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I like to jet ski. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack. I have a pet snake named Snack.
It’s a good thing I’m a born and raised Kansas conservative
police using psychs all over again
Wasn’t this the plot of South Park episode where Kyle’s dad was exposed to be a shitposter on an alt account. Life imitates art.
This smells like snake oil
Isn’t it just fingerprinting but for text?
So even if you had a nice well attributed vector database for encoder only search (fancy AI fingerprinting), there’s going to be a lot of false positives.
Yes, you can keep digging to find more revealing details, but the haystack of where you cross reference to/from gets harder to use. Plus, you assume their other profiles match their interests, which for Hacker News probably works, but if I want to find arbitrary people I doubt it.
So this all comes down to how many breadcrumbs do you leave on the internet. Someone could use this to correlate my Steam username and PSN username, but neither actually link to my other accounts.
yeah with billions of people on the internet idk how you separate the noise on this, especially if you dont mention your location ever
