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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    1 year ago

    Yup, and plenty of people have no issues posting about local events or joining region/city specific groups, so it’s not exactly hard to put two and two together.

    I don’t have much issue posting about the city I grew up in or former jobs, but generally work at being fairly vague about anything current