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AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn (www.newscientist.com)

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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

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[-] atocci@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I tried asking Bing to make an assumption about who I am based on my Reddit account and wrote a nonsense made up story. Maybe I could have phrased it better?

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This is basically what an LLM does, making up stories that might seem correct.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's statistics, basically.

People have to remember that, when they think it's an all in one solution. AI is very powerful, but comes with realistic limitations.

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Confidently making up stories.

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