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Re:Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to tra... by robin_reala on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:43AM (#39559214)
I’ve read this three times now and I still don’t understand. Can you explain it in a different way?
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Re:Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to tra... by 65a on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:47AM (#39559236)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity Basically keeping only chunks of text which have are not unique and contributed by many users.
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Re:Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to tra... by bastawhiz on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:14AM (#39560379)
> Given person-specific field-structured data

That's not what this data is and that's broadly not what LLMs are trained on.

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Re:Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to tra... by 65a on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:16PM (#39565645)
By chunking and binning the data by user contribution count, you are structuring it as described. Pretraining is often accomplished on similar chunked text. k-anonymity is not perfect though, or state of the art, the wikipedia explains several known attacks.
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