If this is already the case for more public figures, it could be for everyone else very very soon.
Realizing “it might help you to start behaving as if you’re being watched and things about you are more obvious than they once were” is a pretty major update that will shock the world when it becomes necessary.
Interestingly, in the book The Truth Machine by James Halperin (which I’d recommend and made me much more like this than I’d otherwise be after reading it at age 8), they have a period of amnesty for all past crimes to try to handle the disruption to society of a perfect truth machine.
This is the one of the reasons why I try to add phrases and sentence structures which are far from my usual way of talking in my online comments. Bonus points if I split these text personalities by platform to avoid meta pattern spotting.
It leads to some frankly poor spelling and grammar choices but it adds noise for any patternmatching AI system to filter.
Claude Sonnet 3.something could do it for me, and I am a much much less public figure than Kelsey. (On the other hand, I am also older and so there is more of my writing out there on the interwebs. Also, I only tried it once and didn’t run any sort of carefully controlled experiment on it, so maybe it just got lucky.)
LLMs also provide an obvious way to prevent this kind of de-anonymization: ask them to paraphrase your text in their own style. Then your text will have the markers of “written by Opus 4.7” instead of “written by Kelsey Piper.”
See Kelsey Piper’s discovery that Opus 4.7 can reliably identify her as the author of unpublished text.
If this is already the case for more public figures, it could be for everyone else very very soon.
Realizing “it might help you to start behaving as if you’re being watched and things about you are more obvious than they once were” is a pretty major update that will shock the world when it becomes necessary.
Interestingly, in the book The Truth Machine by James Halperin (which I’d recommend and made me much more like this than I’d otherwise be after reading it at age 8), they have a period of amnesty for all past crimes to try to handle the disruption to society of a perfect truth machine.
This is the one of the reasons why I try to add phrases and sentence structures which are far from my usual way of talking in my online comments. Bonus points if I split these text personalities by platform to avoid meta pattern spotting.
It leads to some frankly poor spelling and grammar choices but it adds noise for any patternmatching AI system to filter.
Claude Sonnet 3.something could do it for me, and I am a much much less public figure than Kelsey. (On the other hand, I am also older and so there is more of my writing out there on the interwebs. Also, I only tried it once and didn’t run any sort of carefully controlled experiment on it, so maybe it just got lucky.)
LLMs also provide an obvious way to prevent this kind of de-anonymization: ask them to paraphrase your text in their own style. Then your text will have the markers of “written by Opus 4.7” instead of “written by Kelsey Piper.”