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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy (arstechnica.com)
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Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said.

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only if your OPSEC was already bad... LLMs aren't magical, they're just piecing together information you already gave away freely.

Also the authors of this paper refuse to show their work "for safety."