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> I don't get it, you put that information on the internet, you have no expectation to privacy. While that is somewhat true, there are multiple angles to it. T
by jjav 3y ago
> I don't get it, you put that information on the internet, you have no expectation to privacy.
While that is somewhat true, there are multiple angles to it. The big one is expectations. It used to be that if you shared something on an obscure forum that had like 100 readers, most of those people expected that only 100 would see their posting. And it was true, so it reinforced the expectation for nontechnical people, which is basically everyone within a rounding error.
Then everything gets indexes and now fed to AI and suddenly billions of people have easy access to what they felt was very limited in distribution.
You could file this under "People don't threat model correctly", but also (more importantly) under the fact that technology should consider human nature before breaking expectations.
- visarga 3y agoYou should consider the size of the training set as well. A blog post in a 30T dataset like RedPajama has less impact than one in a fine-tuning dataset of 1000 examples. The gradients from all tokens are added up, they stack on top of each other and their influence is diluted in larger datasets.
- fsckboy 3y agodo you ever save things you see on the internet that have some "scandal" merit, say for example you don't like Donald Trump and you come across a variety of material that's embarrassing to him. Or your school bully, or your gf's ex, or Macron in France, Trudeau in Canada, etc. Would you feel that other people should get to tell you to delete it because you're not allowed to use any aids to help you remember or prove why they are bad people (in your estimation)? Freedom to remember is part and parcel of free speech.