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What LLMs Know About Their Users (schneier.com)
4 minutes ago [-]
wcarss 4 hours ago [-]
vavooom 3 minutes ago [-]
I applied this query with 4o and yes, quite a thorough historical recounting. Really weaves together all those "random" questions one asks an LLM into a surprisingly (and somewhat scary) encompassing of one's self.
tveita 4 hours ago [-]
jazzyjackson 2 hours ago [-]

  "6": "User is active 2 days in the last 1 day, 8 days in the last 7 days, and 11 days in the last 30 days."
lol
HPsquared 58 minutes ago [-]
I suppose the last 24 hours contains today and yesterday.
Jensson 1 hours ago [-]
Is that how you work 200%?
BurningFrog 33 minutes ago [-]
FWIW, Grok answers this when asked "what do you know about me?" (I do have an account):

I don’t have any personal information about you, as I don’t have access to user data unless it’s explicitly shared in the conversation. If you’ve posted publicly on X, I could potentially look up your profile or posts to learn more, but I’d need your X handle to do that. Alternatively, if you want to share something about yourself—like your interests, location, or what you’re curious about—I can tailor my responses based on that. What would you like me to know or explore about you?

EGreg 8 minutes ago [-]
When I speak to ChatGPT and other LLMs, I am mindful of the profile they build on me and what I ask about. And even how I ask it.

It is the same as I have been doing for 15 years on public social media.

hardlianotion 1 hours ago [-]
I still don't know what integrous means.
sydney6 33 minutes ago [-]
"Integrous" is a rarely used adjective meaning "having or characterized by integrity". It's derived from the Latin word "integer," meaning whole or complete, and the suffix "-ous" indicating fullness or possession. While technically correct, it's more common to use synonyms like "honest," "decent," or "virtuous" to convey the concept of integrity.

Now, take a guess where this comes from..

simianwords 51 minutes ago [-]
LLM's knowing things about us is genuinely useful - what's the alternative here?
holri 3 hours ago [-]
I just asked Mistral.ai, using it without an account:

what do you know about me? 2:50pm

I don't know anything about you unless you share information with me. How can I assist you today? 2:50pm you do not know my IP and its location? 2:50pm

That's correct, I don't have access to your IP address or your location. If you need assistance with something specific, feel free to let me know!

noident 2 hours ago [-]
You might as well have asked the pen on your desk how much it knows about you. Whether your personal data is in the current LLM context window or not has nothing to do with whether it was collected from you by Mistral.
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
Of course that doesn't prove much. Perhaps the information is only available to administrators.
BoiledCabbage 3 hours ago [-]
Not to complain, but that test would be more interesting if you ran it with an account.
wongarsu 2 hours ago [-]
Rather than ask it if it knows anything about you, ask it where the nearest McDonalds is

Mistral seems honest in its assessment (as should be expected from a French company operating under GDPR). But e.g. ChatGPT will deny knowing your location, but still show a McDonalds that suggests it knows your IP geolocation

bgwalter 3 hours ago [-]
> User’s account is 237 weeks old.

ChatGPT was released to the public on November 30, 2022.

Otherwise, this reads like an FBI file:

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usjusticematls/10/

simonw 2 hours ago [-]
I created an account with OpenAI back in 2020 to try out GPT-3, which would explain that account age.

(I just confirmed that by searching my email for anything mentioning OpenAI in 2020 and found an invite to create an account in October 2020.)

jruohonen 2 hours ago [-]
Same old but there has been surprisingly little attention paid to it in the present context.
nonelog 2 hours ago [-]
The solution is to use www.duck.ai.

Full privacy, no data collection, no User profiling, no surveillance, no training with your data.

Plus, you can chose your preferred AI model: Claude, GPT, etc.

And it's even free of charge.

layer8 1 hours ago [-]
Doesn’t offer access to the usual paid models, which is why it’s free of charge.
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