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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
As a counterstrategy, keep a “done list,” which starts empty first thing in the morning, and which you then gradually fill with whatever you accomplish through the day. Each entry is another cheering reminder that you could, after all, have spent the day doing nothing remotely constructive—and look what you did instead!
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
You need enough data to start noticing patterns, so aim to capture field notes for at least 24 hours. When feeling particularly lost, I do intense personal fieldwork for three to five days.
Choose a day in the next week when you will start this exercise. Ideally, it should be a typical day with a mix of professional and personal activities. Don’t do it on your best friend’s wedding day or when management is due to announce the latest round of promotions.
Self-Anthropology: Become Your Own Anthropologist With Personal Field Notes
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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