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AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

Reference:

arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2310.07298

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (5 children)

not really hard, because people will post anything on the internet. including me.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It sounds like the reason they used reddit was so they could easily find users who had expressly revealed the information in question, and use it to verify that the AI was accurately deducing the same info from style alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They used reddit because it has corraled dumb users. Users a no longer around anywhere else in the Internet, just here on social media. And yes, what better place to find dumb users than on reddit!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I like flying tickle farts, when a cucumber is used....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

People will just post their real name on Facebook. It's crazy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Same. I'm sure I've posted about my location, my job, my race, my history, my real first name, general details of my family makeup etc. I also have a pretty unique name so searching just my first and last name will find stuff about me anyway. I'm even listed by name in books (I was young and dumb and answered some questions about work life).