As these models are trained on every piece of content ever written online, there are going to be a whole bunch of identity cracks, the equivalent of brute forcing a password.
AIs are going to make judgments about your character and personality based on everything you've ever written.
Guesses are going to come out about which burner accounts you've used, because the same password was used on otherwise unrelated accounts.
Essays you wrote in high school are going to resurface and be connected to your adult persona.
There was a time when an 8 character password was the state of the art, and now it can be cracked instantly. In the same way, sleuthing that would have been an impractical amount of work until recently is going to pierce the privacy veil of the internet in ways that could be really uncomfortable for people who have spent 3 decades assuming the internet is an anonymous place.
I really want to know what it would have said about me.
Edit: https://antirez.com/hnstyle does work though!
I'm not questioning what would theoretically be possible to do, but the one that I saw failed the test.
Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
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This comment feels a lot like what someone would say in the early internet, but for the past decade the targeted ads business has been doing that in real time with all the data you give it. And it has spread out of ads, insurance and credit companies are now buying this kind of info too.
You have more to hide than you believe.
Merely using FLOSS software is no longer a complete solution—firewalls and other sandboxes are needed to enforce the user’s wishes. Why they’re built into flatpak etc. Reputable distros are trustworthy but might overlook something occasionally.
Reddit Ads as of late have been trying to sell me things I am in no way interested in, like miniature piano keyboards, ray-bans, and romance novels about a sheriff who is also a shape shifting bear. These advertisers are supposed to have incredibly insight into our very souls but they are constantly whiffing.
Although, I wonder if it's more terrifying for everyone to have belief in such a flawed system, what do we do when the "omniscient" AI starts continually gets things wrong?
Lol. I've pissed people off enough when I've been in a shitposting mood here that they've mined my comment history (I've been here for a bit) and my linked blog on my profile to dig up random details about me to use against me, and that's just from dissatisfaction with some text by a stranger.
Most people have no idea how much information they leak online and how it can be stitched together to figure out who you are.
Just the style of my writing gives me away. Even if that method just gets you down to 5 people it is way easier to go thru 5 peoples information than thousands.
Even something as simple as which browser you use and what the thing emits can identify you. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
I've since updated my threat model to include future possibilities. Which basically comes down to: if it's feasible to avoid data being shared, I better do so, because I have no idea what will be possible in the future.
A decent sized Qwen 3 or Gemma 3 might well do the job. Mistral 3.1 Small is great too.
(Personally I'd be happy to pipe my email through an LLM from a respectable vendor that promises not to train on my inputs - Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini all promise that for paid API usage.)