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Is this sponsored by (the defunct) Cambridge Analytica or some similar entity ?
Isn't this exactly how many of those companies operate ?
<paranoia mode on>
Is this sponsored by (the defunct) Cambridge Analytica or some similar entity ?
Isn't this exactly how many of those companies operate ?
Seemed accurate enough as the result I got correlated closely with one I did I few years back that was definitely more intrusive but eye-opening.
Someone setup a crawler that would take your HN comments and pass them to Watson's personality insights. I was brutally honest just now and the results were the same.
As I noted, it is possible to derive a reasonably accurate profile simply from the language a person uses, so if you're on Facebook, or use GMail they have enough data passing through their servers to profile you anyway.
Technology like this: