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- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
As a registered Republican woman from Texas with five children and two dogs, let me just say that I am astonished!
Me too. I thought I was safe as a Ottoman Empire expatriate living in Arrakis! I don’t want LLMs to connect this account to my pseudonymous mommy blog where I write about my three children who might exist but could be delusions of my untreated schizophrenia.
Oh, WE EXIST, mommy! Let me assure you, as one of said imaginary schizophrenia babies. Currently shacking up in Miami with my new wife I just met cranking my hog at Sturgis.
I don’t believe this! As a fumgrian living as a would be dead camoose off Mt. Kabul, I am overjizzed that AI is reading all my pornhub comments.
You forgot to list your favorite brands
Kegel One
As true as my name is Brenda and my last name is also Brenda. And so is my husband, Brenda. It is a hot day in Texas America today, I’m going to grill one of our dogs for dinner. It is a hot day republican tradition to grill a dog. Hence the name Hot Dogs and the playful name Wieners, named after wiener dogs. Oh lordy bless you heart yeehaa.
From a Facebook post I made on February 17th:
There are giant AI data firms that promise they can go through massive troves of data and pull out general and specific information from them. Information that is actionable and accurate. Give it 6 million data points and it’ll find all the links and organize them for you and unmask hidden details that aren’t visible to the naked eye.
Not one of those companies is stepping up to go through the publicly released Epstein files.
This is what I find crazy. Where are the AI bros chewing through the Epstein files?
There were reports of people trying to unredact the files almost immediately.
But that’s not the same, is it?
I don’t think you can do literally the same thing on the Epstein files. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you have in mind.
In theory, using the information and the released files and the information the public sources, it should be possible to figure out who those redacted names are based on writing style and other factors. We should be able to deanonymize.
Hmm. Maybe but it is not the same problem as those discussed in OP. I also have some doubts about the paper, but that’s another story. You could try it out?
I’m not qualified to design the prompts and home users can’t really pile in 3 million+ documents.
Prompts are in the appendix: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
I don’t know how far you get on the free tier but it should be at least enough for a proof of principle; to get other people to chip in. You didn’t have qualms demanding other people should do this for free.
Mind that this is a serious GDPR violation in Europe. So there will be serious pressure on AI companies to prevent this kind of use.
Today I asked AI to tell me which phone providers were available short by price and offers and it lied all the time, when I pointed it the AI corrected most of it but also removed some that were accurate for some reason.
It would have been quicker if I did that myself instead of ask AI, oh also didn’t provide all companies.
Maybe those companies have better AI that can make no mistakes but I doubt it, I think the LLMs will lie and no one has time to check if they are correct.
And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.
Yeah, but if it falsely identifies the right people, is it really buggy?
How dare you claim that the hallucination engine hallucinates. The Billionaires have declared this heresy.
Great, we’re at a point where “researchers” are helping tech bros hurt the public interest. Could they just NOT publish this shit? Stop giving helpful tips to tyrannical oligarchs!
Academics can be stupid idiots sometimes.
Tbh I read the research article and it’s not rocket science that they were doing. Any 2nd rate FBI analyst would have come up with these ideas sooner or later to try and match anonymous profiles with veryfied ones using LLMs.
Who am I? No forreal, WHO AM I? Last I remember I was on a cruise around the Caribbean. I blacked out one night while at the casino and when I came to I was on a beach in the middle of nowhere with a toothless man who spoke a language I couldn’t comprehend, unable to remember my name or anything from before the cruise. Thankfully he still has a dial up connection somehow in the year of our lord 2026, but I’ve been on this island for two years now. SOMEONE COME GET ME!
Your wife is much happier with me now and the children are already calling me dad. It’s time to move on.
Fuck, I WAS MARRIED!? This toothless guy keeps trying to wrap a bit of twine around my finger and cuddle me when I’m passed out. If I know I’m single now, I might as well go for it. Wish me luck!
You think that is bad? 3 weeks ago I went camping while jacking off and I came across my family doctor’s grandma staring at a pile of leaves. As I got closer I noticed it wasn’t a pile of leaves at all but rather a man that I recognized from somewhere. I realized I had seen him while on a trip to the UK last year at an authentic British fish and chips place my wife and 6 uncles had lunch at. He was vinegar balls Edward, an old fisherman who comes to your table for you to squeeze malt vinegar out of his balls onto your fries for an authentic British experience.
So here he is on my camping jack just laying there dead.
I did what any smart person would do and I pulled out my Swiss Army knife and hacked off his sack. 2 weeks later I went back to the UK and sold his scrotum and balls to that restaurant, they were about to go out of business without malt vinegar so they were extremely appreciative when I brought them the vinegar balls. The mayor of the town named a street after me and gave me six packs of smokes. I smoked them all that day despite being a non smoker because I needed to show that I was thankful for the gift.
In 3 months I’ll be going on another camping trip with my step grandpa, no jacking off allowed this time but maybe I’ll find a corpse that’Il haunt me forever. All it takes is 6 packs of smokes and a pocket full of belly buttons. That’s right, I’m totally a smoker now because smoking is the coolest fuckin thing anyone could ever do.
Average people download gamed and apps and their phone is loaded to the tilt with bloatware. You think they care?
The average person puts their entire lives on Facebook or linkedin with their real names…they don’t give a shit.
“WeLl I hAvE nOtHiNg To HiDe”
The number of times I’ve heard this from people in the secops field is frighteningly high.
Then let me record you fucking. Its for science only, I promise.
I charge money for that
Ah, so you’re hiding profits! I knew you were hiding something!
Its actually a 501c. I spend it all on new toys though. Kind of an ouroborus of porn
Wouldn’t the ouroboros of porn be self-fellatio?
For those who don’t know, we’ve been living in a dystopia since the 2000s.
The results, especially the high numbers stated in the news article (68% recall, 90% accuracy) are overestimated as their verification method (i.e., whether the LLM detected really the right account) come from matching veryfied accounts with a test set of anonymous accounts of which they knew the real name. They knew the real name bcs the persons had a public link to their LinkedIn in their “anonymous” profile (which was removed for the sake of testing wheter the LLm can match the two acfounts. That being said: a user who uses a pseudonym but links his/her account publically to a, say, LinkedIn account doesn’t really care about anonymity and might hand out many more ‘breadcrumbs’ to follow than a truly anonymous account.
But I still think that also in the case of a fully anonymous account, people can be fingerprinted and matched with non-anonymous identities due to language, style etc. by a LLM.
Reminds me of an AI tool that could identify authorship of articles with surprisingly high accuracy, and then they peeked under the hood and realized it was just looking for the author byline at the top of the article that says “By John Doe,” where it completely failed if the article didn’t explicitly say who the author was.
I can’t believe this product, modeled after humans, would lie and cheat like humans
I call BS we can’t even get AI models to determine if an AI write text. This as go to me some magic statistics
somebody should inform EU that they no longer need chatControl
:/
Kind of obvious. If you’re a highschool teacher and you used to be a photographer. You also volunteer as a fireman. You live in France. You have 2 daughters. In 2022 you asked about repairs on your honda civic.
All off this can be amassed from different posts on facebook or reddit. There’ll be just a few people that fit this profile.This seems like an invalid test.
One of them collected posts from Hacker News and LinkedIn profiles and then linked them by using cross-platform references that appeared in user profiles. They then stripped all identifying references from the posts and ran a large language model on them.
If I post something on LinkedIn, and then post the same thing on Hacker News, of course an LLM could match my accounts up.
Am I missing something?

Yeah. I got a hunch of that a while ago, while trying some “old” scenarios of de-anonymization we used to do by hand. Just asking questions and posting pictures got surprisingly accurate results. A single picture with (to me) no significant landmark could lead to localizing a specific part of a city, and that was using a local LLM with a relatively small model, running on a 16GB VRAM 4060Ti.
It is now time to remember fondly the time where the younger people were warned by older people to not post all their stuff online, not over-share, be cautious about strangers, etc. I’m not sure when we lost that, but oh boy, it’s a festival.
Do y’all not write differently when you’re trying to be discreet on Blind?














