Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by DavidPeiffer 129 days ago
>It makes me wanna write an AI browser assistant that can take my comments and stylize them randomly to make it harder to use these sorts of forensics against me

The old trick years ago was to translate from English to different language and back (possibly repeating). I'd be curious how helpful it is against stylometry detection?
1 comments
userbinator 129 days ago
The old trick years ago was to translate from English to different language and back (possibly repeating). I'd be curious how helpful it is against stylometry detection?

If you want to be grouped with foreigners who don't know English, it might work well, although word choices may still be distinctive enough to differentiate even when translated.

link
t-3 129 days ago
Assuming the source language is English, going to a romance language and back wouldn't be too hard grammar wise, but could easily wipe out a lot of non-Latin-descended words if you use the right approach to translation.
link
ted_bunny 128 days ago
"We are pretty sure the target is an Anglishman, which definitely narrows our field but maybe a bit too much."
link