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
It’s statistics, basically.
People have to remember that, when they think it’s an all in one solution. AI is very powerful, but comes with realistic limitations.