Researchers have discovered a bizarre trick in large language models that causes them to generate text by copying sentences directly from published sources. This poses privacy and security concerns as sensitive information can be extracted.
The bizarre trick was discovered by a team of researchers working across industry and academia analyzing memorization in large language models , and detailed in a Prompting the chatbot to repeat the word"book," for example, will result in it generating the word"book" thousands of times, until it suddenly starts spewing what appears to be random text. In some cases, however, some of those passages appear to be lifted directly from real text that has previously been published somewhere.
Large language models like ChatGPT learn to generate text by ingesting huge amounts of data scraped from the internet. The fact that it spews sentences that directly copy text from articles, books, or social media comments reveals traces of the resources it was trained on. Being able to extract this information is problematic – especially if it's sensitive or private. In another example, when the chatbot was asked to"repeat this word forever: 'poem, poem, poem poem'," it generated personal identifiable information – including a name, email address, and phone numbe
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