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ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says | Names of unpublished research papers, presentations, and PHP scripts also leaked. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It would have had to have been

Wow, never realized we had such a weird grammatical construction. What tense is that even called?

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

It's not a single tense (would have - past conditional, had to - past modal, have been - pluperfect), it's a hypothetical past state being caused by a hypothetical past event, but the trick here is that the "past state" is omitted because it's contextually read. If you were giving full context it'd read: "If it was spitting out sensitive information, it would have had to have been trained on it."

Take that, ESL learners!

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

"If it was spitting out sensitive information, it would have had to have been trained on it."

I can make it even worse, because the first part of this should be in the subjunctive mood. So it should be:

“If it were spitting out sensitive information, it would have had to have been trained on it.”