Re:How the AI Bubble Will Pop
by tbrownaw on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:40AM
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Well there was that example a while back of some store's product recommendation algo inferring that someone was pregnant before any of the involved humans knew.
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That wasn't LLMs, that's the incredibly vast amounts of personal data that companies collect on us and correlate to other shoppers' habits.
There was nothing involved like what we refer to as "AI" today.
That's...not hard. Pregnancy produces a whole slew of relatively predictable behavior changes. The whole point of recommendation systems is to aggregate data points across services.
The ~woman~ teenager knew she was pregnant, Target's algorithm noticed her change in behavior and spilled the beans to her father.