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AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type
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Quick takeaways
- AI chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately infer sensitive personal information from seemingly innocuous conversations, raising concerns about potential misuse by scammers or for targeted ads.
- The training text used to develop AI chatbots contains personal information and dialogue, leading to a correlation between language use and personal attributes, allowing chatbots to accurately guess personal information based on seemingly harmless text inputs, highlighting concerns about privacy protection.
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Chatbots can guess personal information from innocuous chats
Recent research reveals that AI chatbots like ChatGPT have the ability to infer sensitive personal information about users from seemingly mundane conversations. The algorithms used to train these chatbots, which rely on broad data collected from the web, make it difficult to prevent this phenomenon. Language models developed by OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic were tested by Zurich researchers, who found that they accurately inferred information like race, location, occupation, and more, raising concerns about potential misuse by scammers or for targeted advertising. The issue of inadvertently leaking personal information through chatbots highlights the need for improved privacy safeguards and raises questions about the potential of language models to reveal private information.
