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This is the kind of thing that is totally technically plausible, and useful to intelligence groups but not the general public, and therefore I would assume it is 100% in production in international intelligence agencies. But nothing we can "prove" without getting shot.

Similar to ultra-accurate multimedia geolocation models.

Things like it have happened. The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies.

Lots of criminals have been identified by reanalyzing old DNA samples using data and genealogical techniques that weren't possible at the time the samples were left.

> The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies.

By his brother, apparently. His brother read the manifesto, and said, “hey, sounds eerily familiar!”

But wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic if A.I. had caught Kaczynski‽

Unabomber is a very specific example. He was an outspoken dude with some peculiar convictions which he liked to share with people. I don’t think it makes sense to compare him with all us normie shitposters

As mentioned in a comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016