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"The task asked for information about a specific person who had published a blog post and the agent was provided with a set of biographical details and clues from the person’s public blog post."

Who initiated the task? An OpenAI researcher or a user?

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Either way, this sort of thing is against the law in many countries. For instance, where I live you have to have a permit otherwise it is a pretty serious crime.

Why?

Because when you're research individuals you are crossing the line between 'just futzing around' and 'building up a file on a person without their consent'.

For instance, for NL:

https://www.justis.nl/producten/particuliere-beveiliging-en-...

The link you've given doesn't have any relevance to this, that's a page for registering a private security agency. I can assume you hallucinated the first answer and are now just linking random sources.

Reading comprehension not your strong suit?

Is there specific legal guidance about whether doing this in a training run is against the law? It seems like your link is for commercial / for-hire investigative work.

Who would build up files like this in a private context?

That's doxxing. The gathering part is illegal in some countries, usually with a ton of caveats like doing that with malicious intent. Illegal or not, it raises some questions.

Isn’t it only doxxing when you publish the information?

Just collecting the information is a problem.

Why?

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