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

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm just gonna put it out there that I live in the state of Georgia, I work for a office supply company as acoordinator making $153,000 a year working 30 hours a week.

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Alright I'll get the AI on the case to see if it can determine those things from your post.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a crackhead in MD, I make about $100 a week scrapping catalytic converters.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a janitor in Jersey City making 18 bucks an hour.