AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life

Patterns of language, your connections and follows e.g local coffee shop, sports team, companies, apps.

It’s socials fingerprinting

Imagine this: You’re on Reddit, Hacker News, or some forum, posting with a silly username like GamerCat2025 or SecretCoderX. You think you are anonymous, and no one knows you and so you can freely express your thoughts.

Well, a brand-new research paper just blew that idea apart. It’s called “Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs” which is a fancy way of saying “figuring out the real person behind a secret online name”.

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