Stylometry - Situation or Science Fiction?
Your writing style is like your fingerprint. And I'm not talking about your handwriting here. Do we still write by hand anyway? I'm talking about your unique way of writing. Your choice of words, the way you formulate your sentences, the use of punctuation. Your language and style errors, or the absence of them. To the point or rather elaborate? Identification based on your writing style DNA is coming closer very quickly and is already being applied in practice, including in forensic analyses. Parts of Shakespeare's works were not written by himself, some stylometrists - writing style analysts - claim. True or not, who knows? Still, the development is moving very fast, driven by AI, artificial intelligence. Do you write under a pseudonym because of your sharp pen? Then you'd better watch out. It is probably only a matter of years before stylometrists, armed with a few Terabytes of AI, will figure out, with razor-sharp precision, who you are, what you write and, just as frighteningly, imitate you almost seamlessly.