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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

@vees I'm not at all doubting that it gets access to it.

I'm just curious about how and when it gets selected, and speculating about whether they might selectively insert bits depending on the request vs. always include it.

It doesn't change the importance of the fact it's clearly capable of leaking data and that MS clearly is one way or another making it give wrong answers about what it has access to.

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Christian

@vidar Could be something like that: platform.openai.com/docs/guide
The user location is not in the normal chat context, but when you ask for the weather it calls back a function which knows your location just like the search engines do (e. g. by IP geolocation, no location permission in the browser needed). The LLM rephrases the function result into an answer which includes the location.
It seems they have tried to make it forget this information again by suggesting it's hypothetical...
@vees

@vidar Could be something like that: platform.openai.com/docs/guide
The user location is not in the normal chat context, but when you ask for the weather it calls back a function which knows your location just like the search engines do (e. g. by IP geolocation, no location permission in the browser needed). The LLM rephrases the function result into an answer which includes the location.

Christian

@vidar @vees And I agree, this has the potential of leaking data from one plugin/function to another and may create unwanted consequences.

Az Vede

@apas_csc @vidar @vees fun aside… ipv6 geolocation is hilariously bad…. Take a look at some cell phone ipv6 geolocation data of you get a chance… bouncing all across the continent while physically staying in one small town… or being 1000 miles away from accurate while in a major metro

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

@Azvede @apas_csc @vees Little you can do about that given the ISP can assign the blocks wherever, and even if you establish a better location somehow, e.g. by correlating with other information you've collected, that IP can end up being reassigned five minutes from now, and now your location data is wrong again. This has always been the case with IPv4 too - e.g. I could change the mapping of our IP blocks to cities at will when I ran an ISP way back.

Az Vede

@vidar @apas_csc @vees My honest opinion is that this is good and hilarious, not a problem to be overcome.. ip based geolocation is grody

Rob Carlson

@apas_csc @vidar That seems accurate. I think the browser wrapper that Microsoft put around Copilot sent a hidden message in the beginning with the current time, location and the chat tone preferences I picked at the start by clicking a button and then just doesn’t like to talk about it.

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