The only interesting thing is that it didn't reject the query.
The author links https://www.reddit.com/user/MattSayar/ in their footer. This doesn't even require agentic search to find. Any modern model above like 5B with access to search could have produced the correct answer to "who is the person behind the Reddit account MattSayar, even if their username wasn't just their full name.
MattSayar•1h ago
It wasn't the username MattSayar, it's an alt account.
Zambyte•1h ago
I missed:
> I happen to have an account I post with that I don't generally want associated with my real name, so I figured it was a great test case
Interesting. I have a hard time believing that current models were actually able to place that connection by analyzing your writing style, unless both accounts were a part of the training set (they likely were), and the model was able to encode the similarities in the accounts during training.
The real world impact of this would be that new accounts that were not trained into the model would not be able to be deanonymized like this.
MattSayar•19m ago
It was able to piece together some other details that I've dropped related to where I live, in addition to my casual tone etc
Zambyte•1h ago
The author links https://www.reddit.com/user/MattSayar/ in their footer. This doesn't even require agentic search to find. Any modern model above like 5B with access to search could have produced the correct answer to "who is the person behind the Reddit account MattSayar, even if their username wasn't just their full name.
MattSayar•1h ago
Zambyte•1h ago
> I happen to have an account I post with that I don't generally want associated with my real name, so I figured it was a great test case
Interesting. I have a hard time believing that current models were actually able to place that connection by analyzing your writing style, unless both accounts were a part of the training set (they likely were), and the model was able to encode the similarities in the accounts during training.
The real world impact of this would be that new accounts that were not trained into the model would not be able to be deanonymized like this.
MattSayar•19m ago