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RE: chatGPT ... There was an "ask HN" a week or so ago about knowing how your personal machine was or was not compromised ... I am imagining training a model
by rsync 4y ago
RE: chatGPT ...
There was an "ask HN" a week or so ago about knowing how your personal machine was or was not compromised ...
I am imagining training a model on all of the PDFs and email and receipts and contracts that I have spent the last 30 years protecting ... and then exploding my home directory with 2M parallel copies.
Now what ?
Which is the real correspondence ? Which contracts are real ? Which invoices and receipts ?
Could one construct a framework where all data at rest is worthless and only witnessed transactions and traffic have any surveillance value ?
- dredmorbius 4y agoChaffing on steroids. On the other hand, note that you'd also need some way of distinguishing ... wheat from chaff ... for your own ability to track your correspondence, transactions, records, etc. Otherwise, that is an interesting idea, particularly in a world in which storage is cheap relative to the size of documents. We're rapidly approaching an era in which storage capacities sufficient to hold the entire Library of Congress collection of books (as text) on a residential PC or server will be highly viable. The larger problem is probably that your copy of that data isn't particularly important in most cases, it's what lies on others servers that's been generated by you / snarfed from your devices / activities. And that's far harder to chaff. Another issue would be that any generated content that raises / matches suspicions could, in a regime with poor civil liberties protections, simply become more ammunition used against you. The old Cardinal Richelieu "six lines" dictum, though in this case, not necessarily in your hand.