# S7, E268 - AI Can Unmask Your Anonymous Account for $4 | Here's How

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Podcast: [Privacy Please](https://stenobird.com/podcast/privacy-please-26933)
Published: 2026-03-13T19:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Your anonymous account isn't anonymous anymore. Researchers just proved it costs $4 to find out who you are. In February 2026, a team from ETH Zurich and Anthropic published a paper that quietly ended the era of practical online anonymity. Their AI pipeline, using nothing but your posts, comments, and forum activity, correctly identified 67% of pseudonymous users from a pool of 89,000 candidates. No name. No photo. No metadata. Just your words. This episode breaks down exactl...

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