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Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by lolinder on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:34AM (#31884385)
If someone wants to find out your identity, they're not going to turn to GPT-3, they're going to do the Google search. With that in mind, I don't see how GPT-3 turning up the same stuff that Google does when given your username is a threat to you.

If there's a prompt out there that doesn't contain your username but does spit out your full name, that's a bigger concern.

EDIT: Oh, and as far as bots go: I really can't imagine someone coding their bots to rely on GPT-3 for personal info. GPT-3 doesn't have an "I don't know" answer. In your case it might turn up something useful, but for most people it would turn up nonsense that is indistinguishable from something useful. It's far more reliable and most likely cheaper in the long run to just buy the data.

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by mst on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:20AM (#31895803)
My name is Matt S Trout. I regularly receive snail spam addressed to 'Ms. Trout'.

Buying the data is quite possibly more cost effective but 'far more reliable' is, I suspect, an overestimate of the quality of the data available to buy.

Re:Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? by Engineering-MD on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:33PM (#31885974)
Well it hugely matters if you have since used the right to be forgotten since the model was made, or if PII was illegally made available and has now been removed.