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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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524 points noperator | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 12:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.447s | source
1. GMoromisato ◴[07 Jul 25 18:35 UTC] No.44493339[source]▶
If you take the 13 seconds of processing time and multiply by 350 million (the rough population of the US), you get:

~144 years of GPU time.

Obviously, any AI provider can parallelize this and complete it in weeks/days, but it does highlight (for me at least) that LLMs are going to increase the power of large companies. I don't think a startup will be able to afford large-scale profiling systems.

For example, imagine Google creating a profile for every GMail account. It would end up with an invaluable dataset that cannot be easily reproduced by a competitor, even if they had all the data.

[But, of course, feel free to correct my math and assumptions.]

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2. smokel ◴[07 Jul 25 21:10 UTC] No.44494711[source]▶
What will they find out? That we are humans?
3. fragmede ◴[08 Jul 25 06:09 UTC] No.44497524[source]▶
It seems more reasonable to assume Google's been doing that since before Gmail launched.