Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media.

But the AIs also picked up on subtler cues, like location-specific slang, and could estimate a salary range from a user’s profession and location.

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arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07298

  • @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    Well the difference is that AI can process billions of accounts, assign those profiles to them, and use them to serve ads appropriately.

    • Kalash
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      8 months ago

      That’s what facebook/google have been doing for years without AI.

      • @[email protected]
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        8 months ago

        This AI presumably doesn’t have access to the information users have explicitly given Meta and Google. Just their comments.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        They used to have AI, until everyone decided it’s only AI if it’s got an LLM backing it

    • _haha_oh_wow_
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      Yeah, uh, you can still do this without “AI”.