Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by softfalcon on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:55AM (#35541815)

I've spoken with a lawyer about data collection in the past and I think there might be a case if you were to:

- collect thousands of people's data

- anonymize it

- then shadow correlate the data in a web

- then trace a trail through said web for each "individual"

- then train several individuals as models

- then abstract that with a model on top of those models

Now you have a legal case that it's merely an academic research into independent behaviors affecting a larger model. Even though you may have collected private data, the anonymization of it might fall under ethical data collection purposes (Meta uses this loophole for their shadow profiling).

Unfortunately, I don't think it is as cut and dry as you explained. As far as I know, these laws are already being side-stepped.

For the record, I don't like it. I think this is a bad thing. Unfortunately, it's still arguably "legal".

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Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:26PM (#35545358)

I realize that data can be de-anonymized, but if the same party anonymized and de-anonymized the data... well, IANAL, and you apparently talked to one, but that doesn't seem like something a court would like.

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