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Can you find that?



I don't know the link but it probably used features from a field called stylometry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

It's been used to discover the author of disputed novels from the past.



Yeah, I tried that and it completely struck out. Gave a "similarity score" of .992 or .993 for ten other accounts that weren't mine. Detected a big fat zero of my old accounts (I rotate them regularly).

AI is hype deep-fried in hypesauce.


Did not worked for me either.

We might be the edge cases though and in general it works. In the way autonomous driving works in general, just not in unexpected situations ...


> In the way autonomous driving works in general, just not in unexpected situations ...

I see what you did there :)


That wasn't the one I was referencing. I was talking about a post that was at least a couple years old. I can't seem to find it at the moment.


ah okay I remember that, it was hugged to death when it was trending, nice to be able to check it out


The author almost immediately took the site down and packaged it as part of some social media analysis tool. I can't seem to find the actual post at the moment.




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