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If it was just BullshitIn and Brainrot News I’d laugh my arse off. The problem is the rest of the internet.
And it gets worse than what the article says. It isn’t just the information present in the text; it’s also how you use language. Spelling, word choice, punctuation, average sentence size, even discourse structure, those are all things that can be used to associate 2+ accounts as coming from the same person, they’re like a linguistic fingerprint. And neural networks are rather good at finding this sort of pattern.
Fuck, you don’t even need a NN to do that. It’s possible to do it by hand, just incredibly boring and laborious.
That’s why I fractured my personality into 6 seperate entities!
That’s one way to do it, I guess. For most people it’s simpler: develop a second writing style and only use it online when sharing sensitive information — such as when whistleblowing or sharing pirate content. That writing style should:
- Prioritise brevity. The less you say, the harder it is to tie your online personae.
- Stick to the standard spelling of the language you’re using. Typically there’s only one standard way to write something, but multiple non-standard ways.
- Avoid as much as reasonably possible words and grammar that reveal your location, social class, education level, age, or any neurodivergence you might have.
- Only use three types of punctuation marks: comma, period, interrogation.
- Keep text structure simple.
Small note regarding people who speak 2+ languages: keep in mind each language you know interferes on your usage of the other languages, often in predictable ways. Even your native one. And this can be used to narrow down a bunch of profiles to who you are.
Ironically, one of the most effective methods is to use a local LLM to rewrite your text with a low temperature setting, moving your writing style to the mean of the LLM style. Erase your identity by hiding as a bot.
Wait… Unless your using a local LLM aren’t you basically giving all the info your trying to hide to the spying bots?
yeah it must be local for security and privacy
Interrogation as punctuation? Idk what that is. Commas, periods, semicolons are underused, I have no idea what the former is.
Other me is jealous of that many instances. That guy is a dick though.
It’s mentioned in the article but we live in an age of anti intellectualism and apparently nobody reads. People have been able to do this with high accuracy for a long time, like at least 10 years.
This just requires less expertise.
Are there any ways to do this for free?
With a basic knowledge of statistics, some time, and caffeine, all things are possible.
If you mean script kiddie it I fucking hope nobody has shipped that lol
Stay off LinkedIn.
attacks like this are just correlation/looking for distinct high info signals. Lemmy is if anything even more vulnerable via federation. But you knew that, because you read the article and didn’t just reply like a 5 year old struggling against the irresistible call of a marshmellow.
When’s the last time you put your real name, current location, employer, coworkers and work history on Lemmy?
I didn’t say that.
Lemmy, and all federated socmed, is much easier to data mine. The way you talk, the spelling mistakes you make, when you post etc can all be used to locate you and demographically identify you and lemmy replicates everything, even posts you delete or edit, to anyone federated.
Getting on LinkedIn don’t fix that.
Do you talk to people like this in real life?
Nice try, AI. Not gonna identify me that way
Cut the personal attacks, like yours on the original commenter, and people in real life will talk to you too.
