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
Finally Google not being evil
Don’t doubt that they’re doing this for evil reasons
There’s an appealing notion to me that an evil upon an evil is closer to weighingout towards the good sometimes as a form of karmic retribution that can play out beneficially sometimez
google is probably trying to take out competing ai
I’m glad we live in a time where something so groundbreaking and revolutionary is set to become freely accessible to all. Just gotta regulate the regulators so everyone gets a fair shake when all is said and done