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

assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 591 points – 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
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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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Delete the AI and restart the training from the original sources minus the information it should not have learned in the first place.

And if they claim "this is more complicated than that" you know their process is f-ed up.

You're right, this is a way to solve this issue. It's just not economically feasible to retrain your model from scratch every time. It takes a lot of money to do it and they will push back.

Then AI cannot exist in a world where security still matters.

Privacy you mean?

They go hand-in-hand. You have no need for security without privacy. You cannot have privacy without security.

Why? That is certainly not obvious.