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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by jmillikin on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:45AM (#31883912)

  > Asking people to maintain total anonymity always, with any
  > slips punishable by permanent publication of that PII, might
  > be the current status quo, but is not where we as society
  > want to head.
‘Sea,’ cried Canute, ‘I command you to come no farther! Waves, stop your rolling, and do not dare to touch my feet!’
Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by darkwater on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:04AM (#31884111)
Well, if the sea was only made by humans and governed by human laws... Or for you the Internet is an uncontrollable force of nature?
Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by randallsquared on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:15AM (#31884205)
The aggregate of human action is uncontrollable, at least at our current understanding and level of technology. What is being asked to be controlled, here, is other humans, not connectivity and protocols, and controlling humans can be... difficult, whether by law, cultural norms, or whatnot.
Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by BoppreH on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:58AM (#31884040)
The Google results are almost entirely from places that I control, directly or indirectly. I can delete the repos, retract my papers, ask moderators to remove my comments. For more serious cases there are courts and laws.

There's no reason why language models should be immune from what is standard expected behavior in society.

I'm not raging against the sea, I'm raging against a bulldozer operator who has plugged their ears.

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by dahart on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:08AM (#31884150)
Why should AI have different privacy standards than google?

The papers you referred too in the top comment have been talking about the ability for AI to infer PII from anonymous data. But that’s not what happened here. You are complaining about AI returning non-anonymous data with easily findable results via other mechanisms. I’m not sure I understand why AI should be expected to understand and filter out information that is otherwise public?

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by bragr on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:25AM (#31884300)
>There's no reason why language models should be immune from what is standard expected behavior in society.

So sue OpenAI then. That's your recourse if you believe you've been harmed. I don't think you'll be very successful, given that even people here aren't strongly on your side. I think normies on a jury trial are going to be even less sympathetic to your arguments than the HN crowd.

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday June 26, 2022 @12:28PM (#31885347)
Yep, no way to do anything about the sea. Just ask the Netherlands.