New Trend on X: Users Leverage AI to Profile "Realistic Personalities" from Their Posts

On the SNS platform 'X' (formerly Twitter), a new trend is gaining attention where users are attempting to have AI profile 'realistic human images' based on their own posts.

This trend involves many users prompting the AI chatbot 'Grok' with requests like, 'Please imagine a realistic human profile from this account's posts,' seeking detailed answers across various categories such as gender, age, occupation, annual income, place of residence, family structure, hobbies, beliefs, and personality.

Users' requests are highly specific, with some even including private aspects like 'height and weight,' 'suitable colors,' 'favorite foods,' 'favorite idol/character (oshi),' and even 'sexual preferences,' indicating an intent to explore how much an AI can deduce from their digital footprint and the accuracy and potential of such deductions.

Grok has indeed analyzed user posts and presented profiling results that deduce specific occupations, hobbies, personalities, and even lifestyles, such as a 'sociable trans woman who loves VRChat,' a 'graphic designer,' or an 'idol fan.' Although these responses are prefaced with a disclaimer like 'These are based on inference, so please use them as a reference,' many users have expressed surprise and interest at the level of detail.

This phenomenon not only demonstrates the evolution of AI's text analysis capabilities but also poses new questions about digital identity and privacy in modern society: how individual posts on social media are interpreted by AI and what kind of 'human profiles' are reconstructed from them. Furthermore, it appears to function as a new form of entertainment, driven by curiosity about how one's own posts are perceived by AI and the enjoyment of interacting with AI.

The 'realistic human image' profiling created collaboratively by users and AI may continue to expand as a new way to enjoy social media in the future.

The Context

This article discusses a trending activity on 'X' (formerly Twitter), a widely used global social media platform. Users are interacting with Grok, an AI chatbot developed by xAI (Elon Musk's AI company), which is integrated into the X platform and available primarily to Premium subscribers. The trend involves users asking Grok to generate detailed personal profiles based on their posting history, exploring the capabilities of AI in interpreting digital footprints and raising questions about privacy and digital identity in the age of advanced artificial intelligence.