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Comment by Eisenstein

20 days ago

If you have a large enough set to test against and a specific person you are looking for, this is totally doable currently.

Of course it's doable. The question is how reliable the results are.

  • I wonder if it works on zoomers too. I have noticed a slight mode collapse among this population ;)

  • Not to mention, I'd argue that most people have a (subtly?) different writing style depending on where they post and to who they talk to.

  • It just needs to find the needles in the haystack. Humans can better verify if they're truly needles.

Not just a test set, but enough of a set to search through and compare against. Several pages of in-depth writing isn't anywhere near sufficient, even when limiting the search space to ~10k people.