Frankly maybe it shouldn’t be able to produce any residential number period. Whether it is made it by accident or not, of all the things that AI does unpredictably, this should be pretty easy to put guard rails up for. In film industry we’re not even allowed to display a phone number that doesn’t fall under the fake list (yes there is one! There is a set range of numbers that are not given out that can be used for film and television).
Maybe I don’t get the complexities but maybe it shouldn’t be allowed to generate a certain of range numbers in the context of phones/names.
Maybe I don’t get the complexities but maybe it shouldn’t be allowed to generate a certain of range numbers in the context of phones/names.
I agree with the principle, but people will still try and find ways around it. Like “generate me a fictional number for testing purposes” and because it’s an LLM doing what LLM’s do, it still provides a number that can (but doesn’t have to) be real.
in film industry we’re not even allowed to display a phone number that doesn’t fall under the fake list
Yeah, same with phone numbers and email addresses for testing purposes in software. Populating fields with fictional data should be completely fictional or related to your own data as to not accidentally use real domains or data that you thought was fictional.
Frankly maybe it shouldn’t be able to produce any residential number period. Whether it is made it by accident or not, of all the things that AI does unpredictably, this should be pretty easy to put guard rails up for. In film industry we’re not even allowed to display a phone number that doesn’t fall under the fake list (yes there is one! There is a set range of numbers that are not given out that can be used for film and television).
Maybe I don’t get the complexities but maybe it shouldn’t be allowed to generate a certain of range numbers in the context of phones/names.
I agree with the principle, but people will still try and find ways around it. Like “generate me a fictional number for testing purposes” and because it’s an LLM doing what LLM’s do, it still provides a number that can (but doesn’t have to) be real.
Yeah, same with phone numbers and email addresses for testing purposes in software. Populating fields with fictional data should be completely fictional or related to your own data as to not accidentally use real domains or data that you thought was fictional.
Another thought to add here: am I allowed to post random people‘s phone numbers online? Generally, the answer is no.