Except you don’t need personal information, look at supermarket data, even when ‘anonymized’ it can predict pregnancy and even a rough geographic location based on what items are available at various locations/times as well as corelating your purchases with the weather.
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mriswith@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
to Predict Where Users Live
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no proper examples
Translation: It might detect the US state if you have revealed a lot of information. If you live elsewhere in the world and haven’t revealed much, it wont even get the country right half the time.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah, but this is just the beginning. Identifying subtle typing patterns will be much more effective at getting your location. At this point, one of the only ways to fight back against that is to: 1: Write what you want to 2: Feed that into a local LLM, and tell it to use a ChatGPT-like writing style 3: Copy that text, and post it
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As someone who only speaks English as a third language after Latin and Mandarin living in Anchorage I tend to agree with you.