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[–] [email protected] 207 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If you paste plaintext passwords into ChatGPT, the problem is not ChatGPT; the problem is you.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Well tbf chatGPT also shouldn't remember and then leak those passwords lol.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did you read the article? It didn't. Someone received someone else's chat history appended to one of their own chats. No prompting, just appeared overnight.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

Well, that's even worse.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

........ That shouldnt be happening, regardless of chat content

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, but the point is, ChatGPT didn't "remember and then leak" anything, the web service exposed people's chat history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well, that depends. Do you mean gpt the specific chunk of lln code? Or do you mean gpt the website and service?

Because while the nitpicking details matter to the programmers fixing it, how much does that distinction matter to you or I, the laymen using the site?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How ? How it should be implemented? It's just a llm. It has no true intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If it's not trained on user data it cannot leak it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Able to have a reflection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A huge value add of.chatgpt is that you can have running, contextual conversation. That requires memory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All of these LLMs should have walls between individual users, though, so that the chat history of one user is never accessible to any other user. Applying some kind of restriction to the LLM training and how chats are used is a conversation we can have, but the article and the example given is a much, much simpler problem that a user checking his own chat history was able to see other user's chats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't actually have memory in that sense. It can only remember things that are in the training data and within its limited context (4-32k tokens, depending on model). But when you send a message, ChatGPT does a semantic search of everything in the conversation and tries to fit the relevant parts inside the context, if there's room.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm familiar, it's just easiest for the layman to consider the model having "memory" as historical search is a lot like it at arm's length

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey chatGPT, is hunter2 a good password?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot tell you about the effectiveness of "*******" as a password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Shit. Guess I gotta stop using "Bosco".