I’d additionally expect the death of pseudonymity on the Internet, as AIs will find it easy to detect similar writing style and correlated posting behavior. What at present takes detective work will in the future be cheaply automated, and we will finally be completely in Zuckerberg’s desired world where nobody can maintain a second identity online.
Oh, and this is going to be retroactive, so be ready for the consequences of everything you’ve ever said online.
I wonder how plausible it would be to develop some kind of tool that offers alterations to any message you leave online into something that has essentially the same meaning and content, but no longer possesses your “digital fingerprint”.
Change the wording into something you’re less likely to use, add or remove subtle details like, say, a double space after a period, randomized posting times, etc.
Obfuscation might be feasible, yeah. Though unless you can take down / modify the Wayback Machine and all other mirrors, you’re still accountable retroactively.
This feels like a natural complement to the censorship/persuasion axis of development. It feels like it would be natural to use this method to detect how aligned a group of people is to each other; we expect that a person and their pseudonyms will be put into the same group. Given how important ideological sorting is to dating, it’s likely dating services might do something like provide a list of pseudonyms-most-likely-to-be-this-person.
I’d additionally expect the death of pseudonymity on the Internet, as AIs will find it easy to detect similar writing style and correlated posting behavior. What at present takes detective work will in the future be cheaply automated, and we will finally be completely in Zuckerberg’s desired world where nobody can maintain a second identity online.
Oh, and this is going to be retroactive, so be ready for the consequences of everything you’ve ever said online.
I wonder how plausible it would be to develop some kind of tool that offers alterations to any message you leave online into something that has essentially the same meaning and content, but no longer possesses your “digital fingerprint”.
Change the wording into something you’re less likely to use, add or remove subtle details like, say, a double space after a period, randomized posting times, etc.
Obfuscation might be feasible, yeah. Though unless you can take down / modify the Wayback Machine and all other mirrors, you’re still accountable retroactively.
This feels like a natural complement to the censorship/persuasion axis of development. It feels like it would be natural to use this method to detect how aligned a group of people is to each other; we expect that a person and their pseudonyms will be put into the same group. Given how important ideological sorting is to dating, it’s likely dating services might do something like provide a list of pseudonyms-most-likely-to-be-this-person.
Hot damn, that’s a good point.
Do it to my alt! Do it to my alt! Not me!
GPT-4 is good enough to identify you if you’re a prolific writer.
I live in constant fear of losing my anonymity.