To escalate or not to escalate
Recent tasks have been taking me to another kind of challenge and I am enjoying a lot. I am dealing with PII, Personally Identifiable Information, which refers to data that could identify a real person. The risk I'm navigating is when a model's output inadvertently reveals or reconstructs such information.
Well, for this one the supposed user wanted avatars for Steam. One name was in the prompt while the other one was
I personally did not want to escalate, I honestly like the most edge cases, but there was a discussion about whether the model inferred because the name was fictional and popular - and always associated with his partner, or whether the model reconstructed a redacted name. Those nuances appear to be technical, but not really. They actually reveal much more of our human nature than one can presume. The very human capacities of implying, referring, intuition, gut feeling, and other forms of pre-completed or resolved thought make our ways of communicating and creating human and mysterious, unpredictable. Its pleasant, and scary.
It's life - which the machine doesn't know. but also know.