Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
by nmstoker on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:58AM
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But it looks like it's in all sorts of places - how do you think the language model ended up thinking that was a good autocomplete?
There appears to be a name on a YouTube channel too that doesn't even need any additional steps (ie the jumping into repos and then licence files you mention above)
Putting that aside, why is this such a concern? it's just a label. It would be another thing if you had something more meaningful being revealed (eg current physical address) but username / real name alone is generally not that big a deal and it's plausibly deniable (ie there could be plenty of other username / real name pairings that are valid)
Anyway, this comes across rather like the Streisand Effect
There appears to be a name on a YouTube channel too that doesn't even need any additional steps (ie the jumping into repos and then licence files you mention above)
Putting that aside, why is this such a concern? it's just a label. It would be another thing if you had something more meaningful being revealed (eg current physical address) but username / real name alone is generally not that big a deal and it's plausibly deniable (ie there could be plenty of other username / real name pairings that are valid)
Anyway, this comes across rather like the Streisand Effect