AI Models: How to Use Them Better and Safer 1
People working in diverse fields like the arts, finance, and politics, not to mention IT, are coming to their desks to learn how to utilize AI models in their business. This is because AI is the most attractive and competitive technique for a great variety of people around the world.
AI models reveal your secrets behind your back
The most distinctive feature of AI algorithms, compared to previous ones, is their ability to learn from data. This means they analyze the data thoroughly, extract useful information, and memorize it. Just like us humans studying. So it is very natural to ask, what if things I want to hide from anyone are considered useful for AI? For more details on the privacy issues, you may find this interesting.
How to protect my privacy from AI models?
The answer is quite simple and straightforward: Do not allow them access to your private information. Making AI to learn your data without access to them? Sounds weird? In fact, it makes total sense. You just need to provide fake data that resembles the real ones but is different. In other words, you generate synthetic data first and use them to train your model and utilize it using the real ones.
Ways to generate synthetic data
As we already explained in our previous post, there are several methods to consider when generating synthetic data. But it does sound paradoxical to make another AI model to generate synthetic data, considering the fact the reason of doing so is training one without allowing it to see your private information. Therefore, you need to select a method capable of synthesizing data without directly accessing the real ones. It is as tricky as you may imagine it is. Even with thousands of researchers and companies working on AI, how to design such methods is an open question.
CUBIG, which stands for ‘cure big data’, is one of these. It provides a service that allows you to generate synthetic data for whatever AI models you’d like to train without needing to upload your actual data.