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‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
(www.theguardian.com)
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An LLM cannot generate random numbers. It has to pull from a list of numbers its model was built to include.
I mean the latter statement is not true at all. I'm not sure why you think this. A basic GPT model reads a sequence of tokens and predicts the next one. Any sequence of tokens is possible, and each digit 0-9 is likely its own token, as is the case in the GPT2 tokenizer.
An LLM can't generate random numbers in the sense of a proper PRNG simulating draws from a uniform distribution, the output will probably have some kind of statistical bias. But it doesn't have to produce sequences contained in the training data.
It could have the whole phone number as a string
A full phone number could be in the tokenizer vocabulary, but any given one probably isn't in there
Either the number was in the training set, or it came up on the Web search somehow.
Shhhhh if someone doesn't know at thisbpoint, they can't be told.