Comment by jampa
16 hours 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.
Exactly, all under the guise of "protect the children" - a tried and true surveillance and control trope.
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.
What a coincidence: "protect the children" narrative got amplified right about when implementing profiling became needed for openai profits. Pure magic
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It doesn't make everyone happy though. I think it would be useful to examine who is asking OpenAI to protect the children, and why.
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"please raise my children for me. Somebody should..."
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".
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.
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.
I think they're quite explicitly saying they already can determine your demographics from your chats. Which is almost certainly true for most users.
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.
>I don't chat - I prompt. And usually zero-shot in an incognito window
Likely demographic: Male, 35-65
Potential interests: technology, privacy focused products
Ideal ad style: avoid emotional hooks, list product features in an objective-seeming manner.
I'm sure it can figure out you don't like bean soup
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.
Chatgpt has ads now?
https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-exp...
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