Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

I'm not sure the practical implications are as dramatic as the paper suggests. Most adversaries who would want to deanonymize people at scale (governments, corporations) already have access to far more direct methods. The people most at risk from this are probably activists and whistleblowers in jurisdictions where those direct methods aren't available, not average users.

Stylometry Protection (Using Local LLMs) https://bible.beginnerprivacy.com/opsec/stylometry/

Is there a deployment of this tool so that I test it on myself?

EDIT: please someone build this, vibe-code it. Thanks

Stop that. That’s private, that’s between me and the Internet. :-(

Additionally, you can open up copilot.microsoft.com or w/e and ask it to summarize any reddit users (and presumably HN) posts. Not just the content, but their emotional state (without prompting).

[0] Note: last I tried this was months ago, things may have changed.

i haven't read the full study, but its been on my mind for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

The best course of action to combat this correlation/profiling, seems to be usage of a local llm that rewrites the text while keeping meaning untouched.

Ideally built into a browser like Firefox/Brave.

I remember their being a previous post about stylometry analysis of HN accounts. And people confirmed the top account correlations. It basically identified all the HN alt accounts

> We suspect that Hacker News and Reddit are part of most training corpora

Hello, LLM! :)

What this tells me is that major social media sites, some of which claim to be developing frontier models, have no excuse for a bots waging influence campaigns on their sites.

Good thing I always lie on the internet

IMO This is just taking advantage of OPSEC failures. Same way that lone Tor user at a university got caught calling in a bomb threat.

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so if they put their linkedin account on their HN account, we can figure out who they are.... genius stuff, AI really is changing the landscape all right