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I wonder how this would work with multiple people with the same names? I mean, I think how "right-to-be-forgotten" works if I were an EU citizen is that I can r

I wonder how this would work with multiple people with the same names? I mean, I think how "right-to-be-forgotten" works if I were an EU citizen is that I can request that some article about me is removed, not that all articles referencing "William Cotton" be removed. There are tens of thousands of people named William Cotton! Do you think filtering I/O could reference a "William Cotton" in a specific context while allowing, say, somewhat well known painter named "Will Cotton" to be included in a summary of late 20th century artists in NYC?

verdverm 4y ago
How does it work for search engines today? Why would that process be any different for ChatGPT? Remember, we are extending pre/post processing steps around ChatGPT to support filtering PII more accurately.
- williamcotton 4y ago
  I think the difference is that if a request is made to Google to remove a specific article that they can put that link on a blacklist... but with GPT the issue seems to be that once the information is compressed that the source and the ability for attribution is lost... so like, perhaps I could still figure out a way to get ChatGPT to tell about the (hypothetical, but not completely improbable) situation where I lost my cool at a PTA meeting. I'm just spit-ballin'!
  - verdverm 4y ago
    In that case, Google is not returning a link to a source. That does not remove the source nor prevent others from creating pages which describe or link to it and also get indexed. Is still think the processes wrapped around query processing and answer returning will be similar. At the same time, what is to prevent ChatGPT from hallucinating anyone losing their cool at a PTA meeting? How would you differentiate the cases of recall vs make believe? Suffice it to say, LLMs present additional dimensions of complexity. We as humans have to do some soul searching instead of just blaming big tech or AI. After all, we are the ones who created the content, biases, and patterns these things learn from. IMO, trust is the biggest issue facing humanity right now
    - williamcotton 4y ago
      That's a good point. Synthetic prompts fed into ChatGPT result in fictional responses. That is to say, the public should not expect a response from ChatGPT that is in any way factual. --- And then I wrote this: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analytic-synthetic-distinction https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analy...

verdverm 4y ago

How does it work for search engines today? Why would that process be any different for ChatGPT? Remember, we are extending pre/post processing steps around ChatGPT to support filtering PII more accurately.

williamcotton 4y ago
I think the difference is that if a request is made to Google to remove a specific article that they can put that link on a blacklist... but with GPT the issue seems to be that once the information is compressed that the source and the ability for attribution is lost... so like, perhaps I could still figure out a way to get ChatGPT to tell about the (hypothetical, but not completely improbable) situation where I lost my cool at a PTA meeting. I'm just spit-ballin'!
- verdverm 4y ago
  In that case, Google is not returning a link to a source. That does not remove the source nor prevent others from creating pages which describe or link to it and also get indexed. Is still think the processes wrapped around query processing and answer returning will be similar. At the same time, what is to prevent ChatGPT from hallucinating anyone losing their cool at a PTA meeting? How would you differentiate the cases of recall vs make believe? Suffice it to say, LLMs present additional dimensions of complexity. We as humans have to do some soul searching instead of just blaming big tech or AI. After all, we are the ones who created the content, biases, and patterns these things learn from. IMO, trust is the biggest issue facing humanity right now
  - williamcotton 4y ago
    That's a good point. Synthetic prompts fed into ChatGPT result in fictional responses. That is to say, the public should not expect a response from ChatGPT that is in any way factual. --- And then I wrote this: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analytic-synthetic-distinction https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analy...