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AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name) (itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10899106

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life for $4

A new research paper from ETH Zurich, Anthropic, and MATS demonstrates that Large Language Models can automatically de-anonymize users across platforms like Reddit and Hacker News.

The AI acts like a digital detective using a method called ESRC (Extract, Search, Reason, Calibrate). It scans a user's post history for subtle clues (hobbies, writing style, locations), searches the wider internet (LinkedIn, other forums) for matches, and uses complex reasoning to confirm the identity.

The terrifying results:

It correctly linked secret Hacker News usernames to real people 67% of the time (with 90% accuracy when it made a firm guess).

It successfully matched a person's separate Reddit accounts from different years 68% of the time.

The entire automated process costs only $4 per target.

"Practical obscurity"-the idea that you're safe online because it takes too much human effort to connect your digital breadcrumbs-is dead. Anyone with a few dollars and an LLM API can now mass-dox thousands of pseudonymous accounts in minutes.

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[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

post your name, specific age, employer, or city in a publicly accessible online place

My real name is Donald John Hoxha, age 80 years old, not counting the dead ones. My employer is Deng Daping, leader of the Shanghai liberals, but I'm actually a remote volunteer all the way from Dongjing province.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

That would be a little less creepy if my middle name wasn't John too.