Paper reading: An Empathy-Based Sandbox Approach to Bridge the Privacy Gap among Attitudes, Goals, Knowledge, and Behaviors [extensive reading]
arXiv 2024, Toby
Risk-free privacy sandbox
Strength
- Interesting and novel idea
- Strong usecase
Concerns:
- Mostly on implementation.
- Browsing history – hallucination? And – it may not be effective, as it’s sensitive and can not be read by web apps.
- How did they mimic and use social media posts?
- they basically can’t.
Idea:
- LLM Agent that impersonates a persona, browse the internet for a while (use real twitter/google accounts, mimic real person behavior), longitudinal
- But for what?
- ethical concerns