Summary of A Synthetic Dataset For Personal Attribute Inference, by Hanna Yukhymenko et al.
A Synthetic Dataset for Personal Attribute Inference
by Hanna Yukhymenko, Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Martin Vechev
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become widely accessible, but their capabilities come with associated privacy risks. This paper focuses on the emerging threat of inferring personal information from online texts using LLMs. Despite the growing importance of LLM-based author profiling, research has been hindered by a lack of suitable public datasets due to ethical and privacy concerns. To address this issue, we propose a simulation framework for Reddit using LLM agents seeded with synthetic profiles and generate SynthPAI, a diverse dataset of over 7800 comments labeled for personal attributes. Our results validate the effectiveness of our dataset in enabling meaningful research on personal attribute inference. We also demonstrate that our synthetic comments allow us to draw similar conclusions as real-world data across 18 state-of-the-art LLMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a big problem with really smart computer programs called Large Language Models (LLMs). These programs are very good at understanding language and can even write their own text. But, they have the power to learn secrets about people just by reading online texts. The researchers in this paper want to understand how LLMs can be used to figure out personal things about people, like what they like or where they live. To do this, they created a special dataset of fake comments that mimic real comments from a popular social media platform called Reddit. They then tested their dataset with 18 different computer programs and found that it worked just as well as using real data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
