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A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not only it doesn't know, but for the people who trained them it is very hard to know whether some piece of information is or isn't inside the model. Introspection about how exactly the model ends up making decisions after it has been trained is incredibly difficult.