This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.

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Machine learning is a surveillance technology.

I mean, can be used that way, can also be used to predict the stock market, or future climate. Just depends on the intent.

Thats like saying Tables are eating technology. It really depends on how its used.

I understood what you meant but first reading it it sounds like the tables are rather quite hungry and I think that is hilarious

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It is overwhelmingly used to generate statistical models of human behavior.

True, but you can also use a hammer to smack a bagle. Its just a tool at the end of the day

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