[HN Gopher] Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birth...
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       Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate-Without
       Being Asked
        
       Author : latexr
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2026-02-19 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.404media.co)
        
       | ThrowawayTestr wrote:
       | If grok knew that it must have been publically available
       | information.
        
         | chrisjj wrote:
         | Indeed. <plays very small violin>.
        
         | collingreen wrote:
         | Why is that true? Especially with such "must have been"
         | certainty?
         | 
         | Or is "publicly available" used here to include data breaches
         | and data sold by gray area data brokers? If this is your point
         | then what would qualify as private information ? If this isn't
         | your point
        
         | pavel_lishin wrote:
         | But should that information ever have been publicly available?
         | Someone else here linked to another instagram account
         | publishing the same data, but that sure sounds like she didn't
         | put it out there.
         | 
         | It's like saying that someone publishing your bank account
         | balance or nude photos is fine, because someone once stole that
         | data and released it on the internet.
        
           | manbash wrote:
           | No, it's not. You assume it was stolen, while it wasn't
           | implied in that comment. They simply stated that the data
           | have been put publicly at some point or another.
        
       | shaderguy1416 wrote:
       | idk who I can talk about a Facebook Meta Ai which added some
       | sexual features to an influencer for an add for a company x. The
       | company x doesn't wanna talk about and influencer y also doesn't
       | wanna talk about it.
       | 
       | Which makes me think what other things like this has happened
       | with Ai.
        
       | jlawer wrote:
       | For Grok's sake you hope this is data that was public, something
       | that was buried deep that it has surfaced.
       | 
       | It's a shame transparency is so poor here. A simple grep of the
       | training data would likely give a clear explanation of where this
       | has come from.
        
       | CqtGLRGcukpy wrote:
       | For when the article goes behind a paywall:
       | https://archive.ph/EOL7V
        
       | hiccuphippo wrote:
       | >I've been paying for data removal services for like, at least
       | six years now
       | 
       | Do such services actually work? The internet is forever.
        
         | dmix wrote:
         | The tech industry was very much against the idea when it first
         | came about. It was only really enforced by a few big companies
         | because of some European law and this lady being from Europe
         | likely excepts information on the internet to be controlled in
         | a centralized way.
         | 
         | There's also been some revenge porn laws in the US that have
         | some cross over. But it's definitely mostly hopes and dreams if
         | you have the money to spend, not something strictly practical.
        
       | jeffwask wrote:
       | Wow, her real last name is Manlove. What a twist.
        
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