they figured out who started q-anon

[SupaVillain]

He looks like the plumber you would hire if your usual plumber is too busy with other work.

Naw he looks like a limo driver

 

[PortCityProphet]

That whole article is bullshyt. They want you to think thems the dudes when in reality its the new York times who is Q and they make money from both the lift with the NYT and the far right with their offshoot right wing media that they own under shell companies.

 

[boriquaking]

it's the guy on the right below

there was a whole documentary about it

This!

 

[Bud Bundy]

They should have realized they were being played when they got there info from an anonymous internet forum.

 

[KingTut]

He looks like the plumber you would hire if your usual plumber is too busy with other work.

Im dying at how spot on this description is

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Not saying that the computers are wrong, but I can say from first hand experience from fighting and winning a fingerprint case that I was wrongly accused of, that it is ultimately an opinion and not based on actual sound scientific principals like DNA is.

Stylometry - Wikipedia

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[MikeyK]

it's the guy on the right below

there was a whole documentary about it

That documentary was fukked.

Can't believe they followed dude when he went to pick up his sex doll

Or the disabled incel midget that got p*ssy from a hooker and gave up being an incel

These cacs exactly who you expect em to be

 

[Stir Fry]

Stylometry - Wikipedia

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It's still ultimately an opinion, just like fingerprints.

The development of computers and their capacities for analyzing large quantities of data enhanced this type of effort by orders of magnitude. The great capacity of computers for data analysis, however, did not guarantee good quality output. During the early 1960s, Rev. A. Q. Morton produced a computer analysis of the fourteen Epistles of the New Testament attributed to St. Paul, which indicated that six different authors had written that body of work. A check of his method, applied to the works of James Joyce, gave the result that Ulysses, Joyce's multi-perspective, multi-style novel, was composed by five separate individuals, none of whom apparently had any part in the crafting of Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.[8]

In time, however, and with practice, researchers and scholars have refined their methods, to yield better results.

One problem with this method of analysis is that the network can become biased based on its training set, possibly selecting authors the network has analyzed more often.

Better results, but not absolute

 

[Curioser]

and one of them is the son of the guy who owns 8chan



With help from machine learning software, computer scientists may have unmasked the identity of Q, the founder of the QAnon movement. In a sprawling report published on Saturday, The New York Times shared the findings of two independent teams of forensic linguists who claim they’ve identified Paul Furber, a South African software developer who was one of the first to draw attention to the conspiracy theory, as the original writer behind Q. They say Arizona congressional candidate Ron Watkins also wrote under the pseudonym, first by collaborating with Furber and then later taking over the account when it eventually moved to post on his father’s 8chan message board.

The two teams of Swiss and French researchers used different methodologies to come to the same conclusion. The Swiss one, made up of two researchers from startup OrphAnalytics, used software to break down Q’s missives into patterns of three-character sequences. They then tracked how often those sequences repeated. The French team, meanwhile, trained an AI to look for patterns in Q’s writing. Both techniques broadly fall under an approach known as stylometry that looks to analyze writing in a way that is measurable, consistent and replicable. To avoid the possibility of confusing their respective programs, the teams limited their analysis to social media posts. Among all the other possible authors they put through the test, they say the writing of Furber and Watkins stood out the most for how similar it was that of Q’s.



© Cheney Orr / reutersA man holding a sign referencing QAnon speaks as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather to protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election, in front of the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC), in Phoenix, Arizona November 5, 2020. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
And they’re confident in that identification. The French team made of computational linguists Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps told The Times their software correctly identified Furber’s writing in 98 percent of tests and Watkins’ in 99 percent. “At first most of the text is by Furber,” said Cafiero. “But the signature of Ron Watkins increased during the first few months as Paul Furber decreased and then dropped completely.”



used machine learning software to identify Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling as the secret writer of Cuckoo’s Calling, a 2013 crime fiction novel Rowling wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. More broadly, law enforcement agencies have successfully used stylometry in a variety of criminal cases, including by the FBI to show that Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber.

Experts The Times spoke to – including Professor Patrick Juola, the computer scientist who identified Rowling as the author of Cuckoo’s Calling – told they found the findings credible and persuasive. “What’s really powerful is the fact that both of the two independent analyses showed the same overall pattern,” Juola said.

Both Furber and Watkins deny they wrote any of Q’s messages. “I am not Q,” the latter told The Times. Furber, meanwhile, said he was influenced by Q’s posts to change the style of his prose, a claim linguistic experts told the outlet was “implausible.” Also worth mentioning is the fact the analysis included tweets from Furber that date from the earliest days of Q’s existence.

What happens next is unclear. The researchers who worked on the identification told The Times they hope unmasking Q will loosen QAnon’s hold on people. Spreading like wildfire on social media, the conspiracy theory has had a profound effect on politics in the US and other parts of the world. And while Q hasn’t posted a new message since the end of 2020, that hasn’t dampened people’s enthusiasm for conspiracies about the "deep state" and its involvement in their lives.

QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning (msn.com)

The son started 8chanbwitoutbthe father knowing so the father doesn’t own 8 Chan

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

It's still ultimately an opinion, just like fingerprints.

Better results, but not absolute

An opinion based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of objectively verifiable data by trained researchers and scientists forming a consensus based on sound scientific principles >>>> some dude saying 'That looks like his fingerprints.'

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[Stir Fry]

An opinion based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of objectively verifiable data by trained researchers and scientists forming a consensus based on sound scientific principles >>>> some dude saying 'That looks like his fingerprints.'

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I'd still rather have further corroborative evidence to bolster their argument than just taking the results of an algorithm as being the definitive truth on its own. And I'm actually loosely talking more about the technology in general and not specifically to this case.

Think of future implications of overzealous cops trying to close a case by any manner necessary using this tech to pin a case on one of us simply because of a similar prose of writing that we were displaying on here. Lots of jurors will simply take it as face value and could lead to many false convictions.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I'd still rather have more corroborative evidence to bolster their argument than just taking the results of an algorithm as being the definitive truth on its own.

Breh, YOUR evidence is purely anecdotal, yet, was enough to convince you, definitively, that this evaluation isn't scientifically definitive.

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[Problematic Pat]

The crazy thing about this is that he isn't even American

Racism is Racism no matter where the cacs from.

 

[ORDER_66]

What happened to that white banker who was financing alot of this bullshyt but he got exposed?!?

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

The crazy thing about this is that he isn't even American

That actually surprises me the least. I figured it was a foreign psyop from the beginning.

Americans will believe anything.