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US Government Working on AI-Powered Stylometry Technology

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is working on a program that will use “artificial intelligence technologies capable of attributing authorship.”

Put another way: the government is creating a program that uses artificial intelligence to identify or fingerprint anonymous authors.

IARPA is the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

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“Each of the selected performers brings a unique, novel, and compelling approach to the HIATUS challenge,” said program manager Dr. Tim McKinnon. “We have a strong chance of meeting our goals, delivering much-needed capabilities to the Intelligence Community, and substantially expanding our understanding of variation in human language using the latest advances in computational linguistics and deep learning.”

The DNI press release:

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, today announced the launch of a program that seeks to engineer novel artificial intelligence technologies capable of attributing authorship and protecting authors’ privacy.”

“The Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure (HIATUS) program represents the Intelligence Community’s latest research effort to advance human language technology. The resulting innovations could have far-reaching impacts, with the potential to counter foreign malign influence activities; identify counterintelligence risks; and help safeguard authors who could be endangered if their writing is connected to them.”

The program’s goals are to create technologies that:

  • Perform multilingual authorship attribution by identifying stylistic features — such as word choice, sentence phrasing, organization of information — that help determine who authored a given text.
  • Protect the author’s privacy by modifying linguistic patterns that indicate the author’s identity.
  • Implement explainable AI techniques that provide novice users an understanding, trust, and verification as to why a particular text is attributable to a specific author or why a particular revision will preserve an author’s privacy.

“Through a competitive Broad Agency Announcement, IARPA awarded HIATUS research contracts to the following lead organizations, which together bring more than 20 academic institutions, non-profits, and businesses into the program:

  • Charles River Analytics, Inc.
  • Leidos, Inc.
  • Raytheon BBN
  • SRI International
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Southern California

“The HIATUS test and evaluation team consists of Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Pacific Northwest National Labs, and the University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.”


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IARPA Kicks off Research Into Linguistic Fingerprint Technology | www.dni.gov, archive.is, archive.org

19 Comments
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ce3848e0 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

Fuck the Internet! its look like better to ditch the network cards since the fingerprinting and censorship is inevitable.

The Internet: Where the big brother can keep an eye on you.

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4e5b39b0 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

I unironically agree with this. The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for mankind.

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ad439d20 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

and I un-ironically disagree, you can remain relatively anonymous on a budget, relatively speaking. Ain’t got no fucking micro chip in my mutha-fuckin ass and a bullet costs the government a lot less anyway hahaha, like they do-um-up in those Russian camps they got setup for the new Ukrainian/Russian residents, the general of winter is barley more innocent than the gas chamber man. Stay hard on them dnl, freedom of speak is a blessing my friend and anonymity is relatively possible for everyone, which is a bit ponderous considering the verifiable financial system of the world but money talks more than verification to most of the world

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36a34ed0 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

identify that

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829c48c0 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

Meanwhile, DeSnake is back there like right, hahaha that dude exists, so does Bunt, mahn and this dude is like the internet is all traceable, I mean scientifically correct but in reality it’s so no/false, half of the fucking world hasn’t even been vaccinated from covid-19, and he’s got alien technology to crack good encryption these days or keep tabs on big tech like Verizon, even aliens are fucked over with their customer support…

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eb46cce0 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

$hwip3d

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27f25150 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

@a8a6411a

I can’t tell how long you can be “relatively anonymous on budget” as everyday it shows that the governments are implementing new ways to destroy people’s privacy and anonymity. They are bypassing every precaution being used for hiding identity and even bypassing their own laws with their parallel investigation and “enhanced interrogation techniques”. They aim to crack monero and GPG for the moment. What did they left? nothing.

I hope when they get holds everything that every dnm user leave them looking for nothing cuz there is no point using the Internet, really.

Freedom isn’t free never was never will be.

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7c878230 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

Ya man, and proper grammar too

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096fed10 Tue, Oct 4, 2022

The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for mankind.

Ayo DNL you aint thinkin’ on e-mailing out e-mailbombs to various internet institution directors is ya?

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91fb6090 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

shits racist af cuz all dem white boi do with this shit is track BLACK KINGS online cuz all dem white bois write the same

dont want no BLACK KINGS getting DE ANONYMIZED
BLACK KINGS gonna start typing like white bois using autocorrect and ms word and shit what now cumskin

So what now, chicken sausage looking motherfucker? How are you going to track us now? Can’t track BLACK KINGS no more, huh?

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f5902550 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

You must kill yourself

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cd742c30 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

It’s all good bk, hit that shit up proper though g. First you get an education

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2065d320 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

To remain unidentified, one should try to imitate other users’ way of writing in a community, basically “when in Rome, do as Romans do”, it may mislead law enforcement and help blend into the crowd. Other tips are: basic wording, paying attention to capitalization, grammar, regional differences (colour insted of color), punctuation and other characteristics that might not be obvious (some people have specific way of writing, make unique mistakes).

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023a0d90 Sat, Oct 1, 2022

Did any of yall bother to read these two bulletpoints?

-> Protect the author’s privacy by modifying linguistic patterns that indicate the author’s identity.
-> Implement explainable AI techniques that provide novice users an understanding, trust, and verification as to why a particular text is attributable to a specific author or why a particular revision will preserve an author’s privacy.

In other words, at the same time they’re developing this technology they’re writing the cliff notes on how it can be circumvented. That means an AI to rewrite your writing samples you post anonymously to prevent being identified would be soon to follow.

That makes this a nothingburger.

f601a7d8
34351630 Mon, Oct 3, 2022

That makes this a nothingburger
Dogshit, authors still need to ACTIVELY circumvent this type of surveillance, which they need to do by dispensing of any detectable idiosyncracy in their writing (or by using several styles - distinct to a sophistacated stylometry engine - and maintaining separation between them). Analytical techniques like this always spiral into an arms race, you can use modern tech to beat past tech but future tech will have you pinned. Even a technically sophisticated author won’t be able to predict all the metrics their advesaries will use. Hence best way of beating high tech adversaries is no tech. We just have to hope stylometry is an inherently limited tracking technique.

You could probably get some English major journalist to run this story under the pretext that it spelled the death of the psuedononymous author, and that the only way to protect your identity is to conform to the uninspired normie droll, big brothers way of beating you into a conforming drone.

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9c552c70 Mon, Oct 3, 2022

just not true, have faith in nothing for that is all we can truly have faith in 🦢

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d6a73c40 Tue, Oct 4, 2022

Prolly doesnt even need to be that complex. Existing article spinners would probably do the trick, SEO cmopanies have been using them for years.

This announcement seams more like a threat than anything to worry about, unless you’re an active blogger and also doing weird shit elsewhere

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8ba4d750 Fri, Oct 7, 2022

f601a7d8: Why distinct to a sophistacated stylometry engine? Seems blending one’s prose into a generic styometry engine used as the AI would be exactly the perfect solution.

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d12afd20 Wed, Oct 5, 2022

Meh, can prob bypass by running text back and forth through translate a few times

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