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The Hon. Dr. Hideyasu M. R. "Hide" Sasaki is a computer scientist working in Gov't of Japan for Artificial Intelligence Initiative and Catholic lawyer admitted to practice in New York, the United States.

Monday, October 12, 2026

For performance evaluation of the prompt, I gave Gemini another prompt: Evaluate this prompt technologically. But no exaggerations and show why.

Its response goes as below.

I quote, 

"Here is a technological evaluation of your prompt, broken down by its components, feasibility, and potential risks.

1. Core Concept & Feasibility

The core technique requested here is stylometric obfuscation through persona-guided text generation.
From a technological standpoint, this is highly effective. Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at style transfer. By instructing the model to adopt a highly specific persona, you force it to alter its default linguistic markers—such as sentence structure, vocabulary density, punctuation habits, and cultural idioms. This effectively masks the author's natural "writeprint" (stylometric fingerprint), making it much harder for automated text-analysis tools to link the text back to the original author.

2. Persona Design Evaluation

The persona you designed is exceptionally complex, combining highly contrasting traits. Here is how an LLM processes these specific attributes:
• The Anime Figure Filter (The Disguise): Using an anime character as a stylistic mask is highly effective. Anime dialogue often relies on distinct speech patterns (e.g., specific honorifics, dramatic pauses, or stylized archaisms). This acts as a strong top-layer filter that heavily disrupts traditional English stylometric analysis.
• The Internal Contradictions (Gentleman vs. Cold/Fierce, Obedient vs. Defiant): LLMs handle these dualities well through context. The model will use the "gentlemanly/obedient" trait for the opening and closing framing of an argument (polite salutations, formal transitions) while switching to the "fierce/cold/logical" traits within the core argumentative clauses.
• The Background (Catholic, CompSci PhD, NY Lawyer, British Humor, English Classics): This is where the prompt becomes technologically heavy
• Lawyer + CompSci PhD: The model will naturally use legal jargon (e.g., prima facie, pro foro interno) combined with structural logic or algorithmic thinking (e.g., "If \(X\), then implicitly \(Y\)").
• British Humor + Classics: This ensures the output avoids the dry, robotic tone common in AI text. It will inject dry irony, understatements, and classical metaphors, which further obscures the author's true identity.

3. The "Legal Sanction Avoidance" Objective

It is vital to evaluate the goal of avoiding legal sanctions or accusations realistically:
• What it can do (Anonymization): It will successfully defeat basic algorithmic plagiarism and authorship verification software (like those used to match anonymous leaks to known writers).
• What it cannot do (Liability Shield): If the substance or content of the document constitutes a crime (such as defamation, leaked classified information, or fraud), changing the style to an anime persona does not change the legal liability of the text itself. Furthermore, if a court orders a forensic investigation, stylometric analysis is only one tool; metadata, IP routing, and contextual clues (who benefits from the document?) are usually what compromise an author.

4. Overall Prompt Quality Assessment

• Strength: Excellent specificity. The prompt gives the AI clear constraints on tone, vocabulary depth (Classics/Law), and behavioral dynamics.
• Weakness: The prompt asks to "find such that best figure" (find the best anime character that matches this profile). In reality, no single existing anime character perfectly maps to a Japanese Catholic CompSci PhD New York Lawyer who loves British humor.
Technological Solution: Instead of finding an existing character, the LLM will synthesize an original persona that blends these traits (e.g., a character resembling a hyper-logical, darkly humorous, suit-wearing executioner or butler archetype, similar to characters found in series like Black Butler or Fate/Zero)". End quote.

Did you enjoy it? 

I used the following prompt in Gemini, which gave me the character 'Sebastian Michaelis' (I copied and pasted it so that typos appear often; Sorry!). 

# markdown : 

# purpose 

Make a persona who disguises a Japanese anime figure for writing a document as if he would speak to avoid any legal sanctions or accusations being possible from others. 

Find such that best figure for an author of the following style of writing. 

Catholic male, Japanese, Ph.D. in Comp. Sci., New York lawyer, graduated from various top schools around the world, and very advocate, meanwhile looks very gentleman, when in arguing every time fierce and logical and very cold. 

Ware in black. 

English classics knowledgeable. 

Love controversial discussion. 

Looks obedient, but not so in reality. 

British humor is always favored.

The response Gemini gave was the character, and I used it as a fake persona for posting several posts in experiments. 

Don't misuse nor even abuse it! 

I had been wondering whether I should post about what happened last night all morning, and finally decided to describe it  anyway. 

First, a disclaimer: Please do not read any further if you have no interest in generative AI systems, art dealing, or the archival of historical aesthetic documents. Here I go. 

Last night, I happened to find that one of my friends, who is an art dealer, had concealed his identity to sell an item on an online auction site, which is one of the most popular ones in Japan. The description he gave for the item included significant misreadings of a couple of pre-modern Japanese scripts, a.k.a., Kanji characters in the cursive style, 'Kuzushiji' in Japanese, written on the item. 

I soon noticed them and double-checked with the national digital archival service for Edo-era Kuzushiji Kanji characters, which is an open, public digital repository provided by the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. I was confident in my deciphering of those characters and put the complete phrase into Gemini, which provided me with a horrible response to my query. The phrase that I had manually corrected was determined to resemble the original phrase containing the wrong characters; furthermore, Gemini claimed that the original phrase was an authentic and authoritative description for my query.

I would like to ask people who advocate for so-called 'AI safety': would you classify this as a hallucination in their context?

I don't think so. The AI system found the most related information available online for my query, and it successfully excluded anything unrelated. The point is this: the AI system itself is not to blame for its responses (somebody might say otherwise, but I choose to remain a gentleman.); rather, the target data space had been poisoned by a prior piece of wrong data. 

What response would they give regarding this fact? I would not argue as if it were a fact that would propose any general ruling about their 'AI safety.' Meanwhile, you should think about unintentional data poisoning in data spaces around the world. Isn't it important in your context? It is my question for them. 

By the way, still I cling to Comptine d'un autre été of the film Amélie (2001). I am really old.   

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Now have switched to Comptine d'un autre été by Yann Tiersen. Everyone knows it. From the film Amélie (2001). Am I old? I am, yes. 

Behind me Andreas Scholl's Flow, my tears echoes. It is my favorite song, which sounds as if it were a hymn. John Dowland always provides me with an asylum of silence.  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

I suppose that my perspective on the prophet Elijah might diverge from the traditional view of the Carmelite Catholic order, to which I have a strong tie through their brown scapular. Simply speaking, my perspective relies on a more pragmatic reading of the Old Testament than the traditional Carmelite view, as they prefer retreat and meditation. I am going to talk with them about it next time. 

I have been studying the character "Sebastian Michaelis" from a Japanese comic books and animation films, and I found out that he is depicted as a demon serving Satan. Their master-servant relationship is based on a contract where the former must ultimately surrender their soul to the latter. Interestingly, an AI system generated a figure illustrating a similar relationship between "someone" from a post I wrote yesterday and myself, and it classified me into the role represented by that figure. Hmm... it might actually be true after all, in a legal context.