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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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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, uh, you can still do this without "AI".

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