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