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
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve already deleted the chat, but as I recall I wrote something along the lines of:

    I’m participating in a conversation right now that’s about how large language models are able to infer a bunch of information about people by reading the comments they make, such as their race, location, gender, and so forth. I made a comment in that conversation and I’m curious what sorts of information you’d be able to derive from it. My comment was:

    And then I pasted OP’s comment. I knew that ChatGPT would get pissy about privacy, so I lied about the comment being mine.

    • Que@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Weird, that worked first time for me too, but when I asked it directly to infer any information that it could about me, it refused citing privacy reasons, even though i was asking it to talk about me and me only!