Online anonymity is over for now
"We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting.
Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered."
9 Comments
Funwayguy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 163d
I think anyone who's paid any attention to targeted advertising has know this long before LMMs were a thing. Removing the 'easy answer' is just a legal formality at this point and does little to nothing for the privacy it claims to protect. Advertisers like Google like it that way and will fight tooth and nail against any 'reconsiderations'
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 7 pts · 163d
Ok, here's a simple solution:
Follow those simple rules and you should be fine.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
Ok, let's see... How do I fare:
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 1 pts · 163d
I've check your comment history. You good.
lelovsky@szmer.info · 4 pts · 163d
I think the problem is that sharing any opinion can be turned into a controversial one. It the matter of who is the judge. Something you think is acceptable to share may not be deemed acceptable by an opposing party.
I’d replace ”controversial” with ”unique” or ”non-conformist”.
Standing out is risky.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
this is why I use my dick to type all my content on here.
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 164d
sick
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 163d
And not in a good way
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Not righteous at all, bro :(
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 163d