Large language models such as GPT-4 were able to identify people’s personal information by analysing their posts on social media

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

  • RentlarEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    Well, if you look at the subreddits where a Redditor posts and there’s a lot of r/Seattle or Washington State then it’s not that hard to deduce.

    Although I try to leave a mild aura of mystery around my personal life, it wouldn’t be hard to snoop around a bit to find details here and there about me.