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

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      1 year ago

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

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        I guess we’d have to have conversation about what constitutes AI and exactly what techniques they’re using to do that.

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