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So maybe the thing to teach isn’t a skill but a spirit.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
James Somers
Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
“Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim memorized training examples,” the researchers wrote in their paper, which was [published online to the arXiv preprint server on Tuesday](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17035.pdf). “Our extrapolation to larger budgets (see below) suggests that dedicated adversaries could extract far more data.”
ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show
Jordan Pearson
So I’ve decided to reactivate LTD, in a limited way. I’m conceiving of it, at this time, as the digital tool that fills in the few gaps I have remaining in a life of knowledge work and personal record. Here’s where I am today and here’s what I think it looks like. These are the things I can see and hear. These are the books I want to remember because culture is made up of what remains after everything else has been forgotten. Also photos of chickens.
Going Analogue, Returning to Digital
warrenellis.ltd
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