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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

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (22 children)

Now will there be any sort of accountability? PII is pretty regulated in some places

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (16 children)

I'd have to imagine that this PII was made publicly-available in order for GPT to have scraped it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Publicly available does not mean free to use.

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