I write these as warnings to other people who might think that it is still adequate to simply use a pseudonym and write exclusively in text and not make the obvious OPSEC mistakes, and so you can safely write under multiple names. It is not, because you will have already lost in a few years.
Regrettable as it is, if you wish to write anything online which might invite persecution over the next few years or lead activists/newspapers-of-record to try to dox you—if you are, say, blowing a whistle at a sophisticated megacorp company with the most punitive NDAs & equity policies in the industry—you would be well-advised to start laundering your writings through an LLM yesterday, despite the deplorable effects on style. Truesight will only get keener and flense away more of the security by obscurity we so take for granted, because “attacks only get better”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if within a few years the specific uniqueness of individual users of models today will be able to be identified from effectively prompt reflection in the outputs for any non-trivial/simplistic prompts by models of tomorrow.
For example, I’d be willing to bet I could spot the Claude outputs from janus vs most other users, and I’m not a quasi-magical correlation machine that’s exponentially getting better.
A bit like how everyone assumed Bitcoin used with tumblers was ‘untraceable’ until it turned out it wasn’t.
Anonymity is very likely dead for any long storage outputs no matter the techniques being used, it just isn’t widely realized yet.
Thanks! Doomed though it may be (and I’m in full agreement that it is), here’s hoping that your and everyone else’s pseudonymity lasts as long as possible.
I can be deanonymized in other ways more easily.
I write these as warnings to other people who might think that it is still adequate to simply use a pseudonym and write exclusively in text and not make the obvious OPSEC mistakes, and so you can safely write under multiple names. It is not, because you will have already lost in a few years.
Regrettable as it is, if you wish to write anything online which might invite persecution over the next few years or lead activists/newspapers-of-record to try to dox you—if you are, say, blowing a whistle at a sophisticated megacorp company with the most punitive NDAs & equity policies in the industry—you would be well-advised to start laundering your writings through an LLM yesterday, despite the deplorable effects on style. Truesight will only get keener and flense away more of the security by obscurity we so take for granted, because “attacks only get better”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if within a few years the specific uniqueness of individual users of models today will be able to be identified from effectively prompt reflection in the outputs for any non-trivial/simplistic prompts by models of tomorrow.
For example, I’d be willing to bet I could spot the Claude outputs from janus vs most other users, and I’m not a quasi-magical correlation machine that’s exponentially getting better.
A bit like how everyone assumed Bitcoin used with tumblers was ‘untraceable’ until it turned out it wasn’t.
Anonymity is very likely dead for any long storage outputs no matter the techniques being used, it just isn’t widely realized yet.
Thanks! Doomed though it may be (and I’m in full agreement that it is), here’s hoping that your and everyone else’s pseudonymity lasts as long as possible.