retiring an account in the age of AI

[SamReomo]

so it occurs to me that an AI could be trained on an abandoned users posts to the point of it being able to mimic the original account holder. it could mimic the original account holder to the point of fooling casual inspection.

Yes, something like that is very possible with the current LLM models. If I'm not wrong then a few months ago someone did something like that with Satoshi's posts and created an AI trained model that could somehow mimic the writing style of Satoshi to some extent.

Though, something like that isn't very possible to be perfect on Satoshi's account as Satoshi's posts are limited in number but something like that is possible on someone's account with thousands of posts/threads.

AI is really a big threat especially in way that you considered it and if somehow a hacker hacks someone's account and somehow had trained an AI model on the posts of that user the there's a chance that no one may notice any posting quality difference since AI was trained on actual poster's posts and it could reproduce that posting style to very high extent that no one would be able to see any difference.

[AVE5]

any comments welcome

The reason of this thread demonstrates that this platform needs to advance from the administrative board by which whoever that wants to retire his account permanently in the forum would raise an emotion and then the forum and administrators like Theymos would interfere in interacting with the respective users on the decision and then the forum developers or engineers may have the administrative approvement to permanently delete the account.
Sometimes, users may want to take some break in the forum which may be required the user to apply for temporary delete of account.
I think this would be better instead of red tagging the account as it may looks aggressive and abused of being a DT member or even unwarranted tags because tagging accounts signifies penalties which such doesn't deserve it.
But if we must have think the other way round, having such members account being disappeared from the forum means the forum will also lost all that post if the user which maybe of help to other members probably in future terms.
So I'd suggest non of legal exiting members as permanently disappearance of accounts should be adopted instead let the account be but the admin should permanently disable any means of the user having access to post or write any such as PM in the forum entirely.
Let the historical posts of such users serve as their legacies and references sake

[SmartGold01]

I believed lot of people has their format and formation of writing maybe to the regularities they do operate their account and if such person doesn't operates in those sequence then it's total out of original owner, maybe better still when leaving the forum for any reason such person could come make a kind of retiring statement or maybe if coming back in the future then theymos has to lock the account from his ends and when you wished to use the account you can hit him up to give you access back to avoid any further scam or hack from hackers.

[Amphenomenon]

I believed lot of people has their format and formation of writing maybe to the regularities they do operate their account and if such person doesn't operates in those sequence then it's total out of original owner,....

I guessed you don`t consider revolution of Ai highly, the more data you can feed to that Ai with other instruction this is an easy feat for more upcoming Ai & their update, I hope you have heard of GPT 4o or seen those deep fake scams and others scams where Ai is the main tool use for.

maybe better still when leaving the forum for any reason such person could come make a kind of retiring statement or maybe if coming back in the future then theymos has to lock the account from his ends and when you wished to use the account you can hit him up to give you access back to avoid any further scam or hack from hackers.

Actually the option vapourminer is considering are those where by once the account is retired he can never get the account back even if he choose to return to the forum that means he has to create a new account to join next time.

@vapourminer I think even if you retire your account and can`t be given any access to the account when you choose to return to the forum again, which will make you have no choice than to create a new account, can also be used by the same Ai, creating an account and maybe having the similar name like vapourminer2, many may believe if the account as the same posting pattern as you except there`s signed a message this might be hard to detect.