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I know one of the authors on this so let me be the first to say: this is bullshit technology by a thoughtless prick I’m not talking to ever again.

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University of Oxford

@UniofOxford

Jul 4, 2019

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A new machine learning algorithm can predict age and gender from just your Twitter profile: po.st/ZPZ3dU

5:04 PM · Jul 4, 2019

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Hi new AI research followers from the talk on trans lives and AI I just did who have opened twitter to see me calling an AI researcher a prick. Don’t worry I’m not mad at you, your father and I both love you

Hilary Mason

@hmason

Jul 4, 2019

It's always interesting when academics discover hacks that have been common in the adtech industry for at least a decade.

Os Keyes

@farbandish

Jul 4, 2019

I mean, academics have been doing them too! I think it’s the multilingualism that’s new to them

AP Lewis

@APLewis

Jul 4, 2019

So could a six year old. So what

Os Keyes

@farbandish

Jul 4, 2019

Missing the point but yes

My AI can detect the age and gender of people who put their age and gender in their profiles, which is a significant fraction. It's the first groundbreaking machine learning magic to also be three lines of Javascript.

Asshole Research Transport stan account

@branewurms

Jul 5, 2019

i reread this three times before i stopped parsing it as “i am one of the authors of this so [...]” and oh boy i couldn’t figure out what that meant but it sure seemed exciting