[squeefers]

so if they put their linkedin account on their HN account, we can figure out who they are.... genius stuff, AI really is changing the landscape all right

[DalasNoin]

To be clear, we are making a clear concession here that the people weren't truly anonymous. But we did use an LLM to remove any identifying information from HN making them quasi-anonymous, this is more described in the appendix Table 2.

We do also make a more real world like test in section 2. There we use the anthropic interviewer dataset which Anthropic redacted, from the redacted interviews our agent identified 9/125 people based on clues.

The blog post might be more approachable for a quick take: https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanon...

[dang]

Thanks for that link! I'll put in the top text.

Edit: actually I've re-upped your submission of that link and moved the links to the paper to the toptext instead. Hopefully this will ground the discussion more in the actual study.

[ranger_danger]

But you also relied on people giving away too much personal information about themselves... which won't always be the case.

[dang]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's a pity that you didn't make your point more thoughtfully because it's one of the few comments in the thread so far that has anything to do with the actual paper, and even got a response from one of the authors. That's good! Unfortunately, badness destroys goodness at a higher rate than goodness adds it...at least in this genre.

[squeefers]

if you come covered in your excrement, expect people to give you a wide berth

[nottorp]

That's what I'm wondering, since my linkedin profile is indeed linked to in my HN profile.

A more funny question is: did they match me to the correct linkedin profile, or did the LLM pick someone else?