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I can never talk to an AI anonymously again

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AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?

Several advanced AI models, in particular Claude Opus 4.7, have demonstrated the ability to deduce the author of relatively small excerpts of text. Recently, Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas sparred on The Argument podcast over online anonymity. I am, myself, passionately and slightly fanatically on the pro-anonymity side. I think that it’s observably very easy for a society to make plenty of perfectly reasonable things unsayable and plenty of perfectly virtuous and meaningful lives unlivable, and anonymity is the only protection for the outcast. That includes gay people like me, who…

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