New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.

New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts… and it only costs a couple of dollars.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    AI can’t even get facial identification correct. It might claim to be able to identify people by online presence, but I wouldn’t doubt if it guesses incorrectly most of the time.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      13 hours ago

      On real Hacker News users, the AI correctly linked the secret username to the real person 67% of the time, and when it made a guess, it was right 90%. The paper also states that matching the same person’s Reddit posts from different years or groups met with 68% success.

    • CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      20 hours ago

      Based on the research they had a 60 something % accuracy. But the test data was for HackerNews accounts which linked to LinkedIn. I would guess that anyone linking their anonymous account to their LinkedIn profile isn’t really trying to hide themselves.