Dran

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Their implementation doesn't seem like a completely shit way to do it:

Apps don’t get your birthday. Microsoft says an age signal doesn’t directly expose the user’s age or date of birth. Instead, GetUserAgeRangeAsync returns one of five ranges.

Windows signal Range

  • Under 10 0-9
  • 10-12 10-12
  • 13-15 13-15
  • 16-17 16-17
  • 18+ 18 and above

At best they could figure out a kid's birthday every couple of years, not an adult's

This "feature" exists as a sort of government-backed guarantee to the lendor that the investment will eventually be paid back. It's a large part of why interest rates for student loans are able to be reasonably low. Say what you will about the system as a whole, but I don't think this particular narrow slice is the broken part. One only has to look at credit card interest to see the otherwise going rate for unsecured debt against the poor.

I have no knowledge about the economics of live poultry, but rotisseries are generally loss leaders at grocery stores. They're so commonly loss leaders that they're often cited as one of the primary examples to explain the concept of a loss leader.

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-costco-rotisserie-chicken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

I'm not aware of any public frontier LLM provider that uses a static seed for inference. Meaning, even with an identical prompt and identical model you will not get the same output. Seeds should absolutely come back with the streaming metadata on requests imho, but they don't in any api/harness I'm aware of.