How to hide or just use strings for the author?

Need help how to hide real author from a posts. An example: if author is John Edison it should be J. E. As I understand by default it is published name and actually username for with the login username inside WP.

How to avoid such reveal of data?
Source: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_authors/

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