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AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.

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[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What software would one use if they wanted to do a similar thing?

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Oogabooga makes running one locally pretty easy. At least for me with an 8GB nvidia GPU so models like llama and such fit.