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What does an AI chatbot know about you?

Marketplace Tech

Marketplace

News, Technology

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

It’s the new Googling yourself — querying your name with an artificial intelligence chatbot and seeing what it spits out. Many large language models like ChatGPT and Bard are trained on vast amounts of data from the internet, so they’ve encoded text about individuals, especially public-facing ones. But, as we know, they don’t always stick to the facts, and that’s particularly troubling when it comes to your good name on the internet. That’s why engineer Silver Keskküla founded the website Have I Been Encoded. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Keskküla about why he created the site.

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0:00.0

Marketplace Morning reports new Skin in the Game series explores what we can learn about

0:04.6

money and careers from the $300 billion video game industry. Plus, here how an Oakland-based

0:11.0

program helps young people get the skills they need to break into this booming industry.

0:15.9

Listen to Skin in the Game and more from the Marketplace Morning report wherever you get your

0:20.7

podcasts. Wouldn't you like to know what all those AI chatbots are saying about you? From American

0:29.4

public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

0:42.5

It's the new Googling yourself, querying your name with an artificial intelligence chatbot

0:48.7

and seeing what it spits out. Many large language models like chat GPT and Bard are trained on

0:56.4

data from the internet. So, they've encoded text about individuals, especially public facing ones.

1:03.6

But, as we know, they don't always stick to the facts, something that's particularly troubling

1:09.5

when it comes to your name on the internet. That's why Engineer Silver Keskola founded the website

1:15.9

haveibenencoded.com. It makes it easy to check in one place what different chatbots are

1:22.6

saying about you. And, of course, I had to try it out on myself. So, it is showing me GPT3's

1:31.9

response. And it says Megan McCarty-Karino is a journalist and editor who has written for

1:36.9

publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She is currently

1:42.4

the Managing Editor of the Lifestyle website Refinery29. I am a journalist. I have been an editor.

1:49.3

I have not worked for any of those publications. Not sure if there's another Megan McCarty-Karino

1:54.1

who's a journalist who has done those things. But, yeah, none of that is accurate.

2:01.4

Yeah, and that's sort of an expected outcome with the earlier versions of these models,

2:06.8

because they have less parameters. So, they just encode a little bit of information. So,

2:11.4

they sort of try to get to the statistical sort of average response that's maybe you're from

2:17.8

this country or maybe you're from this profession or they get something right, but they don't have

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