AI Can Now Doxx Your Anonymous Accounts? Here's What’s Going On
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Researchers use LLMs to link anonymous forum accounts to real names for $1 to $4 per target
Researchers at ETH Zurich, AI safety group MATS, and Anthropic have developed an automated LLM pipeline that can connect pseudonymous posts to real-world identities. It was able to identify hundreds of Hacker News users at 90% precision for as low as $1 per user. The February paper made a comeback this week on X and Reddit. The paper, “Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs,” was first posted on arXiv on February 18. Later, it appeared in …
ETH Zurich and Anthropic study finds LLMs can unmask anonymous accounts for a few dollars each
Researchers at ETH Zurich, AI safety group MATS, and Anthropic have developed an automated LLM pipeline that can connect pseudonymous posts to real-world identities. It was able to identify hundreds of Hacker News users at 90% precision for as low as $1 per user. The February paper made a comeback...
A study of researchers linked to ETH Zurich, MATS and Anthropic describes how AI models can cross public publications with real profiles without hacks or leaks. The tests show relevant results, although their controlled conditions do not allow us to conclude that any pseudonymous account can be identified with the same ease.
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