You can already copy and paste a paragraph of something and you will easily find the source. AI/software can do this automatically, with no effort. And can do this for all paragraphs, or sentences in an article. Furthermore, linguists, or even experienced writters and editors, who are well read and study language deeply, know and are able to discriminate different styles of writtings. AI/software can do this better, and faster. So, searching for a match among say 10million ppl (overestimate of English speaking high profile, courageous informed journalists/activists in the entire world) is a very very easy task.
Btw, we are not talking about the average person, much like yourself, who writes a logically deficient sentence on some obscure forum.
There's a yes and a no there. Let's say one wants to track only specific targets like journalists, or people inside organizations who could become leakers. What you do is gather things those specific people wrote, then train the AI to look for similarity in things on the web. It then is a means to find things to keep an eye on.
There is already various software that can analyze linguistic signatures. I have little doubt this is already deployed by certain agencies.
Considering how many people there in the world, I am sure the accuracy is piss-poor
You have trash logic. Here's why!
You can already copy and paste a paragraph of something and you will easily find the source. AI/software can do this automatically, with no effort. And can do this for all paragraphs, or sentences in an article. Furthermore, linguists, or even experienced writters and editors, who are well read and study language deeply, know and are able to discriminate different styles of writtings. AI/software can do this better, and faster. So, searching for a match among say 10million ppl (overestimate of English speaking high profile, courageous informed journalists/activists in the entire world) is a very very easy task.
Btw, we are not talking about the average person, much like yourself, who writes a logically deficient sentence on some obscure forum.
There's a yes and a no there. Let's say one wants to track only specific targets like journalists, or people inside organizations who could become leakers. What you do is gather things those specific people wrote, then train the AI to look for similarity in things on the web. It then is a means to find things to keep an eye on.