But, what if I use my real name and just lie all the time?
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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.
ok. I confess. My name is not Manne. Its Johnson.
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.
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 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 😌
No, no, everything I've ever said on the internet about myself was true!
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.
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.
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.
My son’s name is also Spartacus.
I believe my line is "me three"?
It’s a good thing I’m a born and raised Kansas conservative
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.
police using psychs all over again
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