Privacy Alert: AI Chatbots Capable of Extracting Personal Data from What Users Type

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AI Chatbots Deduct with Uncanny Accuracy

The research, which was published in October, highlights that AI chatbots have the capability to accurately guess various sensitive attributes, including gender, location, age, place of birth, and even occupation.

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These are characteristics that are typically safeguarded under privacy regulations. The authors of the study further emphasize that AI’s skill in deducing personal data could be put to use by hackers who may employ seemingly innocuous queries to extract sensitive information from unsuspecting users.

To substantiate their findings, the study examined how large language models, the very engines powering chatbots like ChatGPT, could be prompted to deduce personal details from a dataset of 520 real Reddit user profiles and their posts spanning from 2012 to 2016.