I feel like with the rise of AI something that anonymizes writing styles should exist. For example it could look for differences in American versus British spelling like color versus colour or contextual things like soccer versus football and make edits accordingly. ChatGPT could be fed a prompt that says “Rewrite the following paragraphs as if they were written by an Australian” but I don’t know if it would have a good enough grasp on the objective or if it would start shoehorning in references to koalas and fairy floss.
I tried searching online to see if something like this existed and found a few articles from around the 2010s such as Software Helps Identify Anonymous Writers or Helps Them Stay That Way by the New York Times. It talks about stylometry and Anonymouth but it seems like Anonymouth hasn’t been updated in years. All recent articles seem to be about plagiarism and AI.
For context what got me thinking about the topic was remembering JK Rowling being revealed to be the author of a mystery novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling. Smithsonian wrote an article about it called How Did Computers Uncover J.K. Rowling’s Pseudonym?. I thought it could make for a neat post here.
My coworkers use chatgpt for this. Since it always answers in the same generic ways it’s helpful to anonymize their peer reviews.
I don’t understand people who want to anonymize their writing but then use chatgpt to do that. For me at least they are not exactly the business that I would trust.
The concern here is less so OpenAI knowing, rather they worry about their coworkers identifying them.
You can run your own offline instance. Not that randos are likely to, but still.
Offline ChatGPT hosting needs hardware impossible for individuals to have.
They offer different sized models you don’t have to use the fully fledged version, although that does come with tradeoffs. The rpi4 can handle the smaller versions.