LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision

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LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision - feddit.org

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/43902414 [https://lemmy.world/post/43902414]

Fuuuuuck i almost forgot about digital fingerprints. To all of those unacquainted: the way you type, spell, text, etc. The words you use, the phrases, the grammar–everything, ends up as your digital print. Just because your username changes, doesn’t mean your typing does. This is how you will be tracked. Clearing cookies, using different names, dusting your tracks, this all helps, but when you type the same, it’s still you.

Simple, justhave ai your everything for you!

Unironically this is probably the only feasible defense against it. Key points though, it has to be halfway decent and self hosted