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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, even if I didn't belong to a local community and a bunch of communities surrounding my profession, the amount of intrigue and fascination emanating from my comments would cause anyone to guess that I'm the Dos Equis guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem less of like the Dos Equis guy and more of a wind chimes instead of a penis kind of guy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just makes me extra interesting on a breezy day. Ask Mindy.