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European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Post by riffraff »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #16

What is the concern? Is it that the training corpus may contain private info? I think that's pretty valid, but what data is being used that isn't already publicly available? If private info is publicly available, then maybe we should put our effort into resolving that . Is it that user dialogue prompts are being saved into the model (effectively saving them into the training corpus)? Is OpenAI being upfront about tha…

there are multiple concerns, of varying validity, at least:

* ChatGPT claims to be 13+ only, but does not actually check that

* data got leaked across prompts, which is probably bad

* OpenAI is not clear/upfront enough on what it does with your own input

* ChatGPT manipulates, in some sense, personal information, but does not provide a way for those impacted to edit/delete it (which might be hard/impossible, but that does not change the effect on someone who gets impacted by it)

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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thomastjeffery wrote: post #16

What is the concern? Is it that the training corpus may contain private info? I think that's pretty valid, but what data is being used that isn't already publicly available? If private info is publicly available, then maybe we should put our effort into resolving that . Is it that user dialogue prompts are being saved into the model (effectively saving them into the training corpus)? Is OpenAI being upfront about tha…

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Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Post by simion314 »

dmix wrote: post #20
simion314 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This all started because there was a big data leak and OpenAI did not follow the laws related to that. I think they need to investigate if the existing laws related to privacy and children are respected.

I'm guessing this is in regards to the history sidebar leak? > which allowed some users to see snippets of others' conversations — not the full contents, but recent titles https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/23/openai_ceo_leak/ Which laws did they break?

If I am not wrong they have to announce to the authorities and customers the issue. OpenAI kept it quiet, not sure if they admitted anything yet, I got not email for sure to let me know that my data might have been leaked.

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Post by nickthegreek »

simion314 wrote: post #25
dmix wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing this is in regards to the history sidebar leak? > which allowed some users to see snippets of others' conversations — not the full contents, but recent titles https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/23/openai_ceo_leak/ Which laws did they break?

If I am not wrong they have to announce to the authorities and customers the issue. OpenAI kept it quiet, not sure if they admitted anything yet, I got not email for sure to let me know that my data might have been leaked.

they released info on it the same week. https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage

If leaking the titles of other people's searches is illegal... I'm very much interested in how the EU is going to handle the twitter circles issue.

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Post by sjaak »

numbers_guy wrote: post #24

Meanwhile, where are all the ChatGPT competitors of EU origin? I feel ashamed to live on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes.

Don't be; look up some of the founders[1] of OpenAI:

  Ilya Sutskever - born in Russia
  Wojciech Zaremba - born in Poland
  Andrej Karpathy - born in Slovakia
[1] according to wikipedia

Re: European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

numbers_guy wrote: post #24

Meanwhile, where are all the ChatGPT competitors of EU origin? I feel ashamed to live on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes.

Why? It’s a new piece of technology with some major privacy impacts. It has a tendency to straight up make facts and mix them with true pieces of information about even moderately famous people. It makes sense than the privacy watchdog setup a task force to work on the subject. That’s literally why they exist.
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