Thankfully, both are old. But this raises questions about what’s considered private info in the AI age.
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It appears to have pulled the number from a PDF of a FOIA request that I made to the FTC back in 2016.
“Chatbot scrapes and recites public information. Over to Tom with sports.”
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a billion gallons of reasons to hate LLMs, but “doing the thing it’s supposed to be good at doing” isn’t one of them.
Obviously the chatbot should be regulated such that it wouldn’t be able to access that sort of information in the first place, or that it should be filtered from training material. But finding information that the author, himself, previously made public, isn’t really noteworthy. Especially if you consider that, until fairly recently, fucking Jeeves would’ve given you this phone number if you knew how to ask.
In the old days they even printed your name and telephone number in books which were given for free to literally everybody.
Thank you Jeeves. Goodnight.
nothing unless it’s in your own head like it’s always been
While I agree AI shouldn’t be doing this. Address and phone numbers have never been private. We used to send whole books of exactly that information to EVERYONE’S house on a yearly basis.
Which you could opt out of
