AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts 

March 5, 2026 Robert Hart

Do you have a Reddit alt, secret X, finsta, or Glassdoor account you trash your boss with? AI might have just made it a lot easier to unmask you. That's the conclusion of a recently published study, which hints at some uncomfortable consequences for staying private online - even if it's not quite time to hold a funeral for anonymity just yet.

The finding, which has not been peer reviewed, comes from researchers at ETH Zurich, Anthropic, and the Machine Learning Alignment and Theory Scholars program. They built an automated system of AI agents using unspecified models - capable of searching the web and interacting with information much like …

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