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Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

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Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

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post #6

For Grok’s sake you hope this is data that was public, something that was buried deep that it has surfaced. It’s a shame transparency is so poor here. A simple grep of the training data would likely give a clear explanation of where this has come from.

It's usually available through various indirect means. For example, the person who applies to trademark their stage name [0]. (People in the comments are comparing this to revenge porn, but legally it's completely different.)

[0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn88576104&docI...

Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

#36
This isn't specifically a Grok problem, this is an LLM training problem. Internet archive captures some personal info -> LLMs train on it -> you get your data scrubbed from IA, but forget to remove it from LLMs (will Google or OpenAI even respond to your email without legal letterhead..?)

Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

#37

I feel like the bigger issue - from an anonymity perspective - is that she is publicly showing her real face while doing these things, no?

You think the bigger issue is the thing she does voluntary, and that the lesser issue is that Grok leaked something without her consent, that she protected for over a decade?

Are you serious?

Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

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post #37

I feel like the bigger issue - from an anonymity perspective - is that she is publicly showing her real face while doing these things, no?

You think the bigger issue is the thing she does voluntary, and that the lesser issue is that Grok leaked something without her consent, that she protected for over a decade? Are you serious?

You have some reason to think she didn't reveal her legal name voluntarily?

And Grok didn't leak anything. Her legal name was already public for years.

Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

#39
post #37

I feel like the bigger issue - from an anonymity perspective - is that she is publicly showing her real face while doing these things, no?

You think the bigger issue is the thing she does voluntary, and that the lesser issue is that Grok leaked something without her consent, that she protected for over a decade? Are you serious?

how did grok gain access to this supposedly private information? Did it pilfer her private emails? Did it hack the producer's website and gained access to confidential files? Did it look through her computer?

Look, I hate grok just as much as the next person but if it was just crawled then by definition it is not private.

You may very well argue that people are harassing her (and that it's not ok), you may even argue that AI should not facilitate such harassment but to call publicly available information private is mental gymnastic.

Re: Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked

#40
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. .

Are you so fundamentally limited that you can't see the difference between "it's somewhere on the internet if you look very hard" and "a chatbot ingested petabytes of data and you can't ever escape it anymore", or is it just misogyny and hating sex workers ?

> Are you so fundamentally limited that you can't see the difference between "it's somewhere on the internet if you look very hard"

Google her stage name. Her legal name appears instantly from Instagram and Facebook. Not very hard.

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