the end of online anonymity?

[ulrikehahn@fediscience.org]

the end of online anonymity?

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.16800: Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

arXiv.org (arxiv.org)

[jmmaok@mastodon.online]

@UlrikeHahn

Also, qualitative research, especially within open science, needs to reckon with this (should have been anticipating this).

[ulrikehahn@fediscience.org]

@JMMaok yes. It’s deeply worrying!

[emmatonkin@mstdn.social]

@JMMaok @UlrikeHahn

Honestly, doing healthcare data, it has long seemed to me that
a) anonymity is often so hard to achieve and there are so many likely near future risks that the term should be used only very sparingly, whereas it is thrown around like it is going out of fashion
b) one can(should) have honest discussions during consent process about risk as one might for an image/photo release
c) abusive secondary data analysis needs to be seen to have serious consequences

[douginamug@mastodon.xyz]

@UlrikeHahn farewell reddit anon

Interesting world we're coming too, where anything published online will likely be preserved for ever and quite possibly identifiable to author.

Most people will still remain anonymous by sheer volume of content, but politicians, etc will likely need to be trained from adolescence to keep squeaky clean record...

[ulrikehahn@fediscience.org]

@douginamug … it feels to me like where we’re headed is that all of this is becoming so easy anyone is at risk, and that risk is determined simply by the probability that someone holds a sufficient grudge…