Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by tlrobinson on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:01PM
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Uh no. I can't find it now, but there was a famous incident a long time ago (~2005?) where a major chat service (AIM?) released "anonymized" logs for research purposes and people were able to deanonymize some of them.
Consider how easily people get doxed based on tiny shreds of information they post.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by SilasX on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:06PM
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That's an argument for why the OP is right that it's not anonymous enough, not that it's become the common practice not to regard these as anonymous.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by tlrobinson on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:38PM
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Ah right, it was search logs, not chat logs. I think chat logs would be even harder to fully anonymize.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by reaperducer on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:59PM
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Really? I'm pretty sure it's common to consider a conversation transcript anonymous as long as the names are stripped.
There was a story on HN in the last few days where just one side of chats with a home assistant device was enough to identify the person, his S.O., and their friends.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong, but that seems like a stricter standard than currently exists for removing PII from transcripts.