As it turns out, it’s impossible to remove a user’s data from a trained A.I. model. Deleting the model entirely is also difficult—and there’s little regulation to enforce either option.

I’m rather curious to see how the EU’s privacy laws are going to handle this.

(Original article is from Fortune, but Yahoo Finance doesn’t have a paywall)

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They can, but the article is taking about removing data from a model that is already in production. Like if someone emails ChatGPT and says “hey, remove my data from this”, good luck, because it might be a year before they can release a newly trained model with the data removed.