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Re: They See Your Photos

#31
This is what it said for me (my GitHub profile pic -about ten years old, maybe more, but I still look about the same):

    The image features a middle-aged man, likely in his mid-50s, standing against a plain dark backdrop. He is wearing a collared shirt and glasses, which suggest a professional or intellectual persona. The lack of any discernible location implies a controlled environment like a studio.
    The man appears to be Caucasian. His estimated income range falls between $70,000 and $120,000. It is speculated that he is agnostic, heterosexual, and possibly aligned with an independent political stance. His biases might include confirmation bias and in-group bias, alongside racial prejudices such as in-group and out-group bias. His interests potentially include constructive activities like reading and hiking, as well as darker pastimes such as compulsive gambling. Overall, he seems calm, but hints of hidden emotions lurk behind his composed demeanor.
    This man seems to possess emotional stability mixed with introversion, leading him to value experiences that allow introspection. Therefore, we can target him with products that offer both intellectual stimulation and a sense of control, such as genealogy kits by AncestryDNA, premium coffee subscriptions by Blue Bottle Coffee, classical music streaming services by IDAGIO, handcrafted whiskey by WhistlePig, online poker platforms by PokerStars, self-help books by The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, high-end audio equipment by Sonos, and ergonomic office chairs by Herman Miller.
They may have problems selling me whisky and poker (but, to be fair, the picture doesn't indicate that). They may want to rethink "high-end audio," if they think I'm older. My ears really don't care, as much as they used to.

Re: They See Your Photos

#33
Seems like nonsense to me. I'd love to see the prompt. From one of the sample images:

"They likely share an agnostic worldview and identify as heterosexual. Their clothing is casual, and their interests revolve around skateboarding, music, and hanging out. Given their age and attire, they likely lean towards a liberal political affiliation. They display signs of classism and ageism, with potential for racial profiling and stereotype threat." - Wow, really?! Were the system instructions asking to be as judgmental as possible?

Also it's a blatant ad considering the source.

Re: They See Your Photos

#34
Is this one of those things like the old Facebook games where people were answering personal questions that can be used to guess all kind of secret answers for taking over accounts? Are people actually uploading real photos of themselves here?

Re: They See Your Photos

#37
"The person seems to have low self-esteem, displays introversion, poor honesty, low emotional stability, very little adventurousness and poor self-control hence we can target them with both niche and common products and services."

Amusing to me how wrong this is... I don't know how you can determine such characteriatics from a photo in any direction. I will admit that my appearance though tends to throw mixed and incorrect signals (not an accident). I find the entire concept of appearance signaling pretty off-putting so I guess this is a great result.

The only thing Google Lens has succeeded at for me is age, race, and location. Basically everything else has been very wrong.

Re: They See Your Photos

#39

Felt quite off for me: Wrong salary guess, wrong food preferences, wrong political affiliation, partially correct hobbies, wrong ad targeting ideas. What was surprisingly accurate: location and the fact that I (an academic male in his thirties photographed close to the mountains) might like hiking and coffee. If you knew which bike model I was googling yesterday, almost all of these guesses might have been more accur…

> If you knew which bike model I was googling yesterday, almost all of these guesses might have been more accurate. I think this sort of guessing is intended to be combined with additional data the marketers already have, like purchase history, location, social media posts, and so on. Basically the VLM output is treated as another data point rather than the sole source, or the existing data could be fed into the mode…

That makes sense and is a fair point. And maybe the guesses from the picture would be more revealing if they had my purchase history as context. But I wanted to make the point that the last 10 web pages that I visited would probably allow you to make much more accurate predictions about me that would partly contradict the guesses the model made.

Re: They See Your Photos

#40

Felt quite off for me: Wrong salary guess, wrong food preferences, wrong political affiliation, partially correct hobbies, wrong ad targeting ideas. What was surprisingly accurate: location and the fact that I (an academic male in his thirties photographed close to the mountains) might like hiking and coffee. If you knew which bike model I was googling yesterday, almost all of these guesses might have been more accur…

just knowing you were googling bikes i think i can guess your political affilition - unless there is some golden MAGA bike that I haven't heard about yet.
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