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What engineering problem isn't "manufactured"? Hell, pii itself is manufactured. God damn houses! Builders never stopped to think someone I don't want to talk

• jeroenhd 3y ago
  The house was manufactured according to the building and fire safety codes. You can't build a house and then go "well it's too expensive to comply with fire safety/building code and I only just found out about the concept of zoning laws, I'll try to do better next time". People will get mad and you may very well be forced to tear it back down or stop inhabiting it. OpenAI either chose to have this problem or they're completely incompetent, and I doubt the latter is true. They knew damn well that they will encounter PII in their dataset and they knew damn well that there are laws surrounding that. The GDPR was well under way and in the news when their company formed, let alone when their various GPT models were finished, and 20 years before that there were already European privacy laws regarding data collection and other PII use. They chose to train a huge model without implementing a safeguard against PII and now they'll have to live with the consequences. One of those consequences may be "their investment money is going down the drain in fines" or maybe even "their product is illegal across the EU and the EU still wants to see the money from those fines".
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  • renewiltord 3y ago
    Yeah, but fire is a manufactured problem. Animals live quite well without fire. Build out of mud and don't use thatch.
    • stonogo 3y ago
      Weird to see a Hacker News thread devolve into lightning denialism just to protect a private company's bad engineering.
      • renewiltord 3y ago
        You clearly understand nothing about building code. If you used mud to-spec, it is not flammable!