Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

On 2026-02-25, 3 days before the US attacked Iran, Anthropic and researchers at ETH Zurich co-published an article titled Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs, which shows how their LLMs could be used for highly effective deanonymization attacks.

Screencapture of the abstract of a paper titled "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs"
3 days before the US bombed Iran, this paper was published

Read the paper here:

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Unlike the other, I really have a hard time seeing why a paper that is about facts is anyhow political or hidden for any other reason tho.

There are plenty of other political topics here and they are not having the same treatment as this one.
Not cool.

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The paper is not political and clearly not a problem, but the comments about the 2026 Iran war are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Moreover, the OP responded with their own article outside of General > Project Showcase which also violates the rules.

Please respect the fact that you were asked to keep the discussion on forum moderation to the definitive topic on the subject: Forum Moderation

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Haven’t seen anywhere that I was “grounded” to the other thread but sure thing can do if it makes everybody happy. :folded_hands:t2:

Thought that asking specifically why on the given thread would be more relevant but fair feedback. :+1:t2:


Yet it cannot be shared to the wider audience if unlisted.
In its current state, it is per-se fine. Moreover it’s in its current state, just a News article.


EDIT: apologies indeed, totally missed the

I trust nobody will open new threads or side-conversations to bypass this limit, thanks everyone.

Guess I cannot read properly. :man_facepalming:t2:
Apologies, I’ll refrain from commenting any further. :folded_hands:t2:

Here and here. You have reacted and responded to these posts, please don’t ignore them.

Anyone is more than welcome to open a new topic on the paper. I personally haven’t because in-depth papers like these do not get a lot of traction since there is a high barrier to discussion compared to a news article summarising the findings of a paper.

The post shouldn’t be in General > News though, since it’s not a news article.

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