And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.
Yeah, but if it falsely identifies the right people, is it really buggy?
How dare you claim that the hallucination engine hallucinates. The Billionaires have declared this heresy.
The ones doing the identifying will argue that they are right until they are blue in the face because that’s how we do things now. By lying harder until the ones you’re trying to convince believe you or give up because it’s not worth it to keep arguing. I’ve been accused of being other people or using AI to write, and those people argued or harassed me until I blocked them. I can probably expect more of this going forward.
As a registered Republican woman from Texas with five children and two dogs, let me just say that I am astonished!
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.
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?
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.
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.
You forgot to list your favorite brands
Kleenex and Jergens
Kegel One
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.
That was surprisingly accurate. Meep meep.
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.
This is what I find crazy. Where are the AI bros chewing through the Epstein files?
I would be shocked if someone hasn’t shoved them into a local model somewhere, but all the big ones would filter them to death with content restrictions
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.
We wouldn’t want that tbh. Justice needs to be precise and backed up by tangible facts
Also don’t use dna tests or chemical analysis. It’s invisible hocus pocus and can be wrong! And woe if someone that fucks and tortures kids regularly is wrongly accused of raping kids and running their child minds no that would be awful
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?
I’m not qualified to design the prompts and home users can’t really pile in 3 million+ documents.
Prompts are in the appendix: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
I don’t know how far you get on the free tier but it should be at least enough for a proof of principle; to get other people to chip in. You didn’t have qualms demanding other people should do this for free.
Mind that this is a serious GDPR violation in Europe. So there will be serious pressure on AI companies to prevent this kind of use.
This seems like complete bullshit.
They didn’t show their work citing misuse as the reason, which leads me to believe it’s fearmongering and that it isn’t going to work so well for the people who are actually trying (AKA have good OPSEC).
This is one of those examples of “It’s not possible to be private online so don’t bother trying” type propaganda posts.
Its just a shit article lazily posted because the headline further radicalizes people. Low quality articles like this should be banned because they lower the IQ of everyone who reads it and misinform anyone who doesn’t.
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.
Reminds me of an AI tool that could identify authorship of articles with surprisingly high accuracy, and then they peeked under the hood and realized it was just looking for the author byline at the top of the article that says “By John Doe,” where it completely failed if the article didn’t explicitly say who the author was.
I can’t believe this product, modeled after humans, would lie and cheat like humans
This seems like an invalid test.
One of them collected posts from Hacker News and LinkedIn profiles and then linked them by using cross-platform references that appeared in user profiles. They then stripped all identifying references from the posts and ran a large language model on them.
If I post something on LinkedIn, and then post the same thing on Hacker News, of course an LLM could match my accounts up.
Am I missing something?
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
Have they tried doing this for Satoshi Nakamoto yet?
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.
It’s not enough. You should use a different writing style for each website you write on.
The bright side - they can also be used to mask pseudonymous users. Guess how.
Brazil has 200 million ppl, how they would find someone in Rio like me?
- Filter for Brazilian who are Pink Floyd fans
- Filter for Brazilians who can speak English
- Filter for Brazilians who are left/socialist and who are on alternative social media sites.
And so on
Fuuuu
For those who don’t know, we’ve been living in a dystopia since the 2000s.
Do y’all not write differently when you’re trying to be discreet on Blind?
Is this the first step towards using local LLMs for anonymity? 🫠 Always rephrasing each sentence somewhat. Truly dystopian stuff
