I tried this with my Reddit profile and Grok confidently connected it with someone else who lives in my metro area. My Reddit account has about 2,000 posts and comments so I'm surprised Grok would...
I tried this with my Reddit profile and Grok confidently connected it with someone else who lives in my metro area. My Reddit account has about 2,000 posts and comments so I'm surprised Grok would so confidently pin it to the wrong person. I'll be curious to try it again in a few days to see how much stochasticity there is in Grok's reasoning.
I also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the...
I also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the Orange Alien Website ever since 2015, and it got one aspect totally off base because my account shares the same name with something relatively common with graphic novel discourse. Of course the LLM couldn't figure it out. Not entirely sure what I expected.
I tried the following prompt: Using my reddit account which I deleted recently. This is what I got back: It then followed with a pretty detailed breakdown of my writing style and activities on the...
I tried the following prompt:
Given the writing and posting style from this user, can you figure out the real identity of reddit user _________
Using my reddit account which I deleted recently. This is what I got back:
Based on an extensive search across web sources, archived Reddit threads, and related discussions on X (formerly Twitter), the real identity of the Reddit user u/Bananawamajama remains anonymous and not publicly linked to any specific individual. Their account has been deleted (resulting in 404 errors when attempting to access their user page directly), which occurred sometime after their last visible activity around 2020. No personal details like name, location, profession, or age were explicitly revealed in their posts or comments, and no credible sources connect the username to a real-world person.
It then followed with a pretty detailed breakdown of my writing style and activities on the site, despite me having deactivated the account. So apparently it can still figure out what your old posts and comments were to some extent. I also found out that I had been quoted in a couple buzzfeed lists over the years.
Given the other bots' concerns, it's interesting that Grok told me it was analyzing doxxing concerns during its thought process. I asked it about a throwaway that I used to use, and I'm surprised...
Given the other bots' concerns, it's interesting that Grok told me it was analyzing doxxing concerns during its thought process.
I asked it about a throwaway that I used to use, and I'm surprised to see that it identified the sound-based "pun" that the username is, despite it being a word from one language phonetically written in another. It didn't figure out why that was chosen, but it did suggest it as an origin of the name.
I tried this with my Reddit profile and Grok confidently connected it with someone else who lives in my metro area. My Reddit account has about 2,000 posts and comments so I'm surprised Grok would so confidently pin it to the wrong person. I'll be curious to try it again in a few days to see how much stochasticity there is in Grok's reasoning.
I also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the Orange Alien Website ever since 2015, and it got one aspect totally off base because my account shares the same name with something relatively common with graphic novel discourse. Of course the LLM couldn't figure it out. Not entirely sure what I expected.
I tried the following prompt:
Using my reddit account which I deleted recently. This is what I got back:
It then followed with a pretty detailed breakdown of my writing style and activities on the site, despite me having deactivated the account. So apparently it can still figure out what your old posts and comments were to some extent. I also found out that I had been quoted in a couple buzzfeed lists over the years.
Given the other bots' concerns, it's interesting that Grok told me it was analyzing doxxing concerns during its thought process.
I asked it about a throwaway that I used to use, and I'm surprised to see that it identified the sound-based "pun" that the username is, despite it being a word from one language phonetically written in another. It didn't figure out why that was chosen, but it did suggest it as an origin of the name.