This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I fed your comment to ChatGPT 3.5 (telling it that it was a comment that I had written to avoid triggering any of its “as a large language model blah blah privacy” conditioning) and this is what it said:

    Based on the comment you provided, here are some observations I can make about you:

    Technical Knowledge: Your understanding of machine learning and language models, particularly the reference to “locally-run models” and “smaller LLMs,” indicates that you have a technical background, likely in computer programming or a related field.

    Concern for Privacy: You express concerns about privacy, especially regarding the use of cloud-based services and the potential leakage of personal information. This suggests that you are privacy-conscious and value data security.

    Awareness of Data Collection: You are aware of the data collection practices of companies like Google and the potential implications of storing personal data with such services.

    Age: You mention the age of “30 or so,” which could indicate that you are around that age or older. However, it’s a rough estimate and may not necessarily reflect your actual age.

    Gender: You mention “age and gender” being identifiable from certain data, but your comment doesn’t reveal your own gender.

    Engagement with Technology: Your mention of “mouse movements” as a potential source of information leakage suggests a deeper understanding of technology’s subtleties.

    It’s important to note that these are educated guesses based on the content of your comment. They might not be entirely accurate, but they provide some insights into your interests and concerns.

    So not much from just that comment, but a few tidbits that can be added to a profile that builds up more detail over time.

    We were already facing this sort of thing before AI exploded, though. A lot of the various Reddit user analysis services out there were able to get a fair bit right about me based just off of my most recent 1000 comments (though I just checked my profile on RedditMetis and it did get a few significant things wrong, it’s clearly a pretty simple-minded approach to analysis).

    Heh. I just checked the link for why RedditMetis thinks I’m transgender and it referenced this comment where I’m literally objecting to RedditMetis’ interpretation that I’m transgender. Citogenesis at work.