OpenAI: "We use ... de-identified data to improve ChatGPT"

Posted by nycdatasci 1 day ago

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Comment by zaptheimpaler 22 hours ago

Man weve lived through this playbook already with Facebook and Google and an entire industry already over the last decade, we can’t be this naively trusting of entities which ultimately maximize shareholder/owner value and nothing else.

Meta already pirated all the books in the world to train the models, lied about it and got caught. We know the models all stole copyrighted information and somehow got away with it - where even if it is fair use to train on it, they pirated it in the first place. Sam Altman is already known to have made serious lies throughout his career. OpenAI apparently doesn’t even know what websites their own damn models are hacking.

It’s insane to trust these same people at their word now. The whole company will not know, someone at a high level could easily steal the data. Apparently even this tweet is saying they use your de-identified data to train on even when you explicitly turn off those options in settings. It’s the same old tricks again.

Comment by citizenpaul 18 hours ago

Im really concerned about what big tech is going to do the nezt few years. They have historically been on a good day mediocre stuarts of trust. This was when they had no competition and a money only flows in business model.

Now they are facing near unlimited CAPex expenses and possibly existential threat to their product. I think we will be astounded at how vile they become.

Comment by nycdatasci 1 day ago

Post from Mark Chen for those not on X:

  Two things to distinguish:
  Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.
  Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company.

Comment by nozzlegear 23 hours ago

They don't even know which websites and services their agents are hacking at any given moment. I'm more than a bit skeptical that they know whether an agent looked at the Navier Stokes work.

Comment by creativeSlumber 20 hours ago

> Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes.

This says that they trained on user sessions. The de-identification here I believe refers to removing PII, which doesn't matter here because the issue at hand is the content of the researcher's session where they likely discussed their approach tackling the Navier Stokes problem.

> Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.

If they trained the model on Lavent's chat sessions (PII removed or not), then this statement is meaningless as the model weights already contain that information.Given it's a new yet unreleased internal model, it is likely a 10+ trillion parameters (Astra is rumored to be 10 trillion), so the model can retain a lot more detail/info from training data.

Why is he leading the with the irrelevant part first ?

> And so does every LLM company.

Nope, not for enterprise users.No enterprise customers would use it if all of their internal business plans / trade secrets would end up in the model weights of the next OpenAI model. Imagine your competitor asking chatGPT a question and the model spitting out your business plan. These models can retain very specific fine grained data. I remember there were examples of them reproducing sections of their training data verbatim.

Comment by impossiblefork 13 hours ago

Even if you apply Goldfish loss or other things like that, they still understand the gist of the thing they're trained.

That's of course the whole point of things like Goldfish loss.

Comment by purplecats 23 hours ago

bit unfair. if the second one is allowed an extra statement "And so does every LLM company." so should the first

Comment by Art9681 13 hours ago

Read the fine print. Use the API.

Comment by simianwords 19 hours ago

Is this done even if you turn off the consent? How come there's no answer to this?

Comment by gus_massa 9 hours ago

Probably they respect it, but you must remember to turn it off (always), your coworkers must turn it off, if you share a draft with a graduate student they must turn it off, if you share a short version with the PR office they must remember to turn it off, ...

Comment by gatio 7 hours ago

It will typically be off by default for business plans...and enforceably off in expensive enterprise plans.

Comment by mmooss 1 day ago

> de-identified

The issue always is, was the de-identification effective?

With a birtdate, gender, and zip code, ~85% of Americans can be uniquely identified.[0] Much data contains much more unique information than that; I imagine most data about you has identifiable fingerprints - where you go, what you bought at the grocery store, your medical conditions, movies you watch, music you listen to, entertainment choices, hobbies, etc.

An LLM is the perfect tool to identify someone based on that data.

Comment by eigenlab 16 hours ago

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