Dont bother. Im never going to be your demographic. I don't want to be profiled by anything for any purpose especially when 1. that profile is then shared publicly 2. I never got consent. I don’t need tailored recommendations and im not going to assess people based on a third party’s black box interpretation that cant possibly have appropriate context.
I'm not quite as extreme as OC, but value privacy enough to not carry a cell phone and always pay cash; my suggestion would be to allow an ability to opt-out, which would unfortunately probably require you to retrain your entire model (i.e. to destroy all connections/weighting to the opt-outs).
An example would be that users place a small opt-out snipped within their user profile, e.g. [no-robots] ?
Perhaps OC might consider never commenting outside of 4ch..? Except even glowies train LLMs =D
1. I want the knowledge/experience/anecdotes/opinions of others.
2. I want to share my own knowledge/experience/anecdotes/opinions with others.
3. Contributing low-bandwidth, high-quality* content is (hopefully) doing my small part in encouraging others to do the same.
My primary concern:
You are providing a map of individual user interests over a period of time. This is feels like a violation of privacy to some and is outright dangerous to others.
Why?
1. People have many interests. The Marketing Manager likes birdwatching, Bollywood, hacking podcasts, amateur chemistry, traditional Ukrainian breadmaking, ASMR, erotic independent film, rock climbing, pole-dancing, gunsmithing, and horse racing.
2. People are public with some interests, and private with others. The degree of public vs. private disclosure can come from external pressure (ie: political oppression, public servant expectations) or internal motivation (ie: embarrassment, pride).
3. People change over time. The 27 year old Marketing Manager may want to distance themselves from their poor political comments as a student.
Where to now?
If you stop work now, someone else will pick up where you left off. So how do make a system which balances the user AND allows you to continue?
1. Easy and simple opt-out option.
2. User profiles. Allow me to share /which/ interests are associated with me. I am a nuclear engineer by trade, but I'll be damned if I want to talk about it in my spare time. Let me opt-in to Birdwatching, and opt-out of nuclear engineering so those weirdos at work don't find me.
3. Limit the Time for association. Maybe that means you only 'connect' people with their comments in the past year as the Public default. Once the user connects with your system and has control over their online persona, then the user can decide what to show and for how long.
Future use?
1. Push this tool as an anonymity improvement tool, which also encourages meaningful conversations with people you want to connect with.
2. Feature: "We notice you posted for the first time to /r/bsdm with your /u/PepsiOfficialMarketing. Was this a mistake?"
3. Feature: "Our AI has scanned your recent posts. We have connected your writing style across two accounts and this may compromise the seperation of accounts. The following phrase: 'Do what thou does MFK!' was used to connect these accounts by our AI."
(*Compared to current internet gasoline fire of ad-infested, algorithm targeted, Top-10 lists of Top Ten Lists.)
