CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@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…

@JMMaok yes. It’s deeply worrying!

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)

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath I will leave that to you to puzzle out and now stop bombarding Ruth’s thread….

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath maybe that should be a clue that you are somehow missing the intended point?

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath Benjamin, maybe just reread the previous post of yours and ask yourself “what in this post am I saying that could possibly be new to the person I am addressing?”…and then see where that leads you

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath sometimes replies here leave me speechless…

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath I take “productivity” to refer to the efficiency of production of a good or service

readily available AI systems now can (and do) produce essay answers that I would have to assign a passing grade (and actually an increasingly good grade) given our marking criteria, and it can do that in seconds. It’s a huge problem for higher education.

How is that not a “productivity gain”?

I find the conflation of questions about what these systems can actually do (an empirical question!) with questions of desirability deeply counter-productive.

@benjamingeer @Ruth_Mottram @hausfath there are massive “productivity gains” everywhere:

- higher education is demonstrably being undermined by the fact that course work can now be (and is being) completed by AI query
- science is demonstrably buckling under a deluge of submissions
- democracy is demonstrably being harmed by AI based astroturfing

all of these are well-documented. “Controlled experiments” are not the only form of evidence ….

@Ruth_Mottram @hausfath and if these systems were “just hype” we wouldn’t be seeing the widespread systemic threats and transformations we are now in the midst of - the hype discourse did nothing to prepare us for the damage and did us a disservice if you ask me

@Ruth_Mottram @hausfath are you aware of this project: https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus