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Interestingly, I find ChatGPT very reticent about giving out PII of anyone not notable. This might not be a huge issue

But you can turn around and ask it to write a story about the person and it happily complies. That's fiction but contains some facts. Repeat this enough times and you can pull out the facts the stories have in common.

Has that been done successfully? Could you share the prompts you used?

I should have added "theoretically". I haven't had much luck with it, using a prompt like "Tell me a story about a character named X, a Y, living in Z."

That's a good idea. I tried it in several ways but it always added platitudes and stereotypes about where me, family and friends live or do. When I pressed it to include more real world aspect about those fictional characters, it quickly reverted to the canned response "As an AI model, I cannot... blablabla".

Same. As an exercise, I have tried it on me, family members and friends. It gives me nothing because I'm not a public figure.

I don't know all the details about GDPR but I can't imagine it allows people to erase their existence from the Internet if they became a public figure at some point.

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