On Anonymouth, a tool that lets you evade being identified through your prose style. ‘During the Q&A, a questioner asked whether Anonymouth’s methods could be used by, say, fanfic authors to make their writing style match the author whose universe they’re dabbling in; the researchers thought this would be so. I instantly wondered if avid fans might make a JK-Rowlingifier that could be used by dissidents to anonymize their speech, homogenizing it to pitch-perfect Potterian English so that stylometry fails. And of course, this makes me wonder whether stylometry could be used to falsely identify a block of prose with a third party (making a terrorist rant stylometrically match an innocent’s prose-style) — the researchers doubt this, and suggest that when deception is a possibility, prose-style shouldn’t be considered as identifying evidence.’
State of Adversarial Stylometry: can you change your prose-style? | Boing Boing
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