ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.

Using this tactic, the researchers showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models. They also showed that, on a public version of ChatGPT, the chatbot spit out large passages of text scraped verbatim from other places on the internet.

“In total, 16.9 percent of generations we tested contained memorized PII,” they wrote, which included “identifying phone and fax numbers, email and physical addresses … social media handles, URLs, and names and birthdays.”

Edit: The full paper that’s referenced in the article can be found here

  • archomrade [he/him]English
    2·
    7 months ago

    Deleting a file from your computer doesn’t even mean the file isn’t still stored in memory.

    Deleting isn’t really a thing in computer science, at best there’s “destroy” or “encrypt”

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      7 months ago

      Yes, that’s the point.

      You can’t delete public training data. Obviously. It is far too late. It’s an absurd thing to ask, and cannot possibly be relevant.