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ChatGPT will now predict your age based on how you interact with it (lemmy.ml)

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ChatGPT will now predict your age based on how you interact with it

It seems now #openai is doing age estimation too based on this email I received,

After Google who made the "Age signals API" into Android phones, now OpenAI will "predict your age based on how you interact with our services".

No, I don't want #chatgpt to analyze my age, thank you very much, (I always used the privage chat mode anyways, whatever impact it actually has on the data they use), so I will now switch to an alternative that doesn't do that : https://chat.mistral.ai/

Don't misunderstand me, protecting children is a good idea, but if that implies having to be analyzed by an #AI and having your experience change based on that, I'm heavily against it.

Although it's convenient, if it starts analyzing my behaviour as well then I guess it will be a good time to start thinking a bit more on my own and only rely on AI as a last resort solution...

Their article https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12652064-age-prediction-in-chatgpt

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.

I just run everything possible locally which helps a lot. Nearly everything my friends do in "the cloud" I do on my own computer. Even stuff like spreadsheets they want to do in the cloud. It flummoxes me, how willing they are to share everything with big tech.

If you have a mid range or better GPU, you can even run a local LLM. I have used one for language translation. I cannot speak German but I was talking to a German speaker who did not speak English about a hobby. We could talk to each other despite not sharing a language. That's practically sci-fi to me! I used a sandboxed LLM disallowed from any network access, to do that.

Even so, I am skeptical about most of what I see people use LLMs for. I am afraid of what they will allow bad actors to do. I am afraid of even worse corruption of the information space. I doubt the horse will re-enter the barn tho.