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GPT-2 Reportedly Reproduced Personal Data from Its Training Data
OpenAI's GPT-2 reportedly memorized and reproduced portions of its training data, including personal information such as names, email addresses, social media handles, and phone numbers. Researchers raised concerns that large language models could expose private or sensitive information when trained on web-scale datasets containing personal data.
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2019-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2020-12-02T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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