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jampa | 1 month ago

I imagine they're building this system with the goal of extracting user demographics (age, sex, income) from chat conversations to improve advertising monetization.

This seems to be a side project of their goal and a good way to calibrate the future ad system predictions.

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samename|1 month ago

Exactly, all under the guise of "protect the children" - a tried and true surveillance and control trope.

embedding-shape|1 month ago

For context though, people have been screaming lately at OpenAI and other AI companies about not doing enough to protect the children. Almost like there is no winning, and one should just make everything 18+ to actually make people happy.

rendaw|1 month ago

Every "protect the children" measure that involves increased surveillance is balanced by an equal and opposing "now the criminal pedophiles in positions of power have more information on targets".

peddling-brink|1 month ago

And also to reduce account sharing. How will a family share an account when they simultaneously make the adult account more “adult”, and make the kids account more annoying for adults.

Lots of upsides for them.

torginus|1 month ago

Tbf, they already had all the data they could use as they liked as per their EULA, I don't think they need a cover story.

kube-system|1 month ago

I think they're quite explicitly saying they already can determine your demographics from your chats. Which is almost certainly true for most users.

intrasight|1 month ago

I don't chat - I prompt. And usually zero-shot in an incognito window. I doubt it'll determine much of anything about my demographics.

notatoad|1 month ago

they definitely can do that already, and chatGPT will happily tell you all the demographics it thinks it knows about you if you ask it.

heliumtera|1 month ago

safe to say everything in existence is created to extract user demographics. it was never about you finding information, this trillion market exists to find you. it was never about you summarizing information getting around advertisement, it is about profiling you.

this trillion market is not about empowering users to style their pages more quickly, heh