US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers

Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by MonkeyMalarky on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:38AM (#33036330)

Someone unintentionally did something similar with HN comments to find users who sound most similar to you/eachother and people were finding their throwaway and alt accounts.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by vmoore on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:06PM (#33036719)

Yes I recall that: 'Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by dhosek on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:54PM (#33041295)

Interesting. There was commentary about finding anonymous/throwaway accounts, but on mine, I did not find my anonymous account (although I use that very rarely). The accounts that turned up seemed to be all real, and in a couple cases I could guess what might have made the checker match us (e.g., mentions of MFAs or Apple //e or similar politics), but not all. I didn’t notice any linguistic similarities.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by rkagerer on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:01PM (#33041373)

Yeah back then I felt mine didn't produce good matches either.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by ravenstine on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:31PM (#33041603)

Neat experiment, though it took me fewer than 30 seconds to rule out my nearest "doppelganger". Too many patterns there I've never used.

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Re:US Government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymo... by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:43AM (#33044494)

That's interesting. I wonder if they will periodically update the data set to reflect new posts.

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