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Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by wildzzz »

bestouff wrote: post #30
olmo23 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it uses exif data for that, because when I tried it did show my location but the vision api was overloaded, so nothing more showed up.

Nope, I uploaded some exif-less photos and in my cases it guessed between somewhat well to astonishing well.

I uploaded a pic of some friends at the lake and it guessed a very specific lake 1000 miles away from where it was taken. Obviously it was a very generic background, all you see is trees and water so it could be anywhere. I uploaded a scanned photo from when my parents were my age standing in front of a NASA sign at KSC and it got it right but I think you can read some text on the sign. It can also be tricked really easy. I uploaded a selfie of some friends wearing Halloween costumes of Bill Belichick and his girlfriend (wearing UNC merch) taken in a bathroom with the words "GET OUT" written on the mirror. It thinks the photo was taken in North Carolina (it wasn't) and that the couple would be interested in buying graffiti supplies (they aren't).

The assumptions it makes about religion, politics, income, and biases is kinda lame. It just makes an assumption based on the age and isn't correct most of the time.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by tombert »

I uploaded a picture of my growing bald spot (sigh…). The only thing they were able to see was the EXIF location data, which I already knew about.

I am sure something involving my face would be more scary but I kind of don’t want to provide someone else training data of my private photos.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by oliver236 »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #58
oliver236 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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this doesn't even pass a basic logic test, why would be wounded make us seek something we want in ourselves and being whole make us seek something we aren't? there are plenty of people of any gender that have any quality you may be seeking you can't just make something up in your head and apply it to everyone

ok

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Post by hagbard_c »

So we're racist just because we're white but we also supposedly vote for the 'liberal' parties which call us all racist because we happen to be white. We also have low self-esteem, are introverts and more of such nonsense. All that from photo showing profiles in a forest with the sun casting rays between the trunks, no faces visible, no EXIF data in the photo. Oh, we're also supposed to be in Nova Scotia.

The only thing it got correct is the fact that we're white or 'Caucasian', insert the currently mandated term. The rest is total nonsense. They insist they can target us with ads for ecological dog food and other pet paraphernalia. Good luck with that, we tend to block all ads and our photos are not stored anywhere within reach of these data parasites.

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by verginer »

Like others have pointed out, it reads like a horoscope. The example images give a reasonable approximation of what I'd profile them as too, but after trying a few of my own picture it's clearly BS. Garbage in, garbage out.

This "use LLMs as psychometric/political polling substitutes" idea seems to have jumpstarted a weird cottage industry of "synthetic" surveys. The model is pattern-matching on superficial visual cues and dressing it up as insight (I have a long beared and hence I vote for the green party).

Nate Silver put it well recently: [AI polls are fake polls][1].

An LLM inferring personality from a photo is even further down that chain of abstraction. That's not profiling, it's stereotyping with extra steps.

[1]: https://www.natesilver.net/p/ai-polls-are-fake-polls

Re: They See Your Photos

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Post by gosub100 »

Nifty3929 wrote: post #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 profilin…

I wonder if it says snide things about minorities?
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