About a paper showing LLMs can deanonymize people online from information they posted.
Has this happened?
Yes 64 (49%)Not sure 44 (34%)No 23 (18%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About a paper showing LLMs can deanonymize people online from information they posted.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Yeah my first thought was "of course an LLM can do that, we didn't need a paper to tell us". I would be more impressed if it could do it without that information, such as by analyzing writing styles and other cues that aren't direct PII.