US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by badrabbit on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:17AM (#33036027)

NSA already does this. "Stylometry" I believe is the term. Perhaps they used heuristics and algorithms so far? I would NLP was good enough for this years ago.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by dehrmann on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:26PM (#33041560)

Back in 2015 you might have some linguists work with data scientists to do feature engineering and use those as inputs to an LR model. I suppose you can let a deep learning model feature engineer for you, but either way, you'll get to some of the same heuristics you're thinking of.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by canjobear on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:20PM (#33043177)

I taught this as a routine class project in 2018.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by geysersam on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:20AM (#33045472)

What training data did you use in that project?

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by jacooper on Saturday October 01, 2022 @10:44AM (#33046949)

Didn't they de-annonymize Satoshi through analyzing his "stylometry" too?

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by ProllyInfamous on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:46AM (#33047444)

Two of the people who [likely] made up "Satoshi"s core team are now deceased, RIP (Hal Finney [ALS] & Len Sussman [Suicide]).

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by midmagico on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:45PM (#33048925)

Both of these have been widely debunked as Satoshi candidates, especially the latter.

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