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Comment by specproc

4 years ago

I just ran pdfinfo on ~/Documents/Resume.pdf. It had my name on it, that's messed up.

    $ pdfinfo Resume.pdf
    Title: $MYNAME Resume
    Subject:
    Keywords:
    Author: $MYNAME
    Creator: LaTeX with hyperref package
    Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.19
    CreationDate: Sun Mar 1 16:44:34 2020
    ModDate: Sun Mar 1 16:44:34 2020
    Tagged: no
    Form: none
    Pages: 1
    Encrypted: no
    Page size: 612 x 792 pts
    File size: 158423 bytes
    Optimized: no
    PDF version: 1.5

  •     $ pdftotext -layout Resume.pdf output.txt
        $MYNAME
        Email: my.name@email.com
    
        Summary
        
        A motivated and detail-oriented software engineer with experience in web development and data analysis.
        
        Skills
        
        - Proficient in Python, Java, and JavaScript
        - Experience with web development frameworks such as Flask and React
        - Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
        - Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
        
        Experience
        
        Software Engineer
        ABC Company
        
        Jan 2020 - Present
        
        - Developed and maintained web applications using React and Flask
        - Improved data processing efficiency by implementing optimized algorithms
        - Collaborated with team members to design and implement new features
    
        Data Analyst
        XYZ Corporation
        
        Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
        
        - Analyzed and visualized large datasets using Python and SQL
        - Created reports and presentations to communicate findings to stakeholders
    
        Education
        
        B.S. in Computer Science
        University of California, Los Angeles
        
        Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
        Certifications
        
        - Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP)
        - Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

> I just ran pdfinfo on ~/Documents/Resume.pdf. It had my name on it, that’s messed up.

Well, ChatGPT requires you to be logged in to your OpenAI account, so it is not implausible that that information is available to the bot, though it seems to be instructed not to respond with it on direct questioning. But its quite plausible that the mechanism used to create the virtual Linux terminal also serves to bypass this safety feature; getting it to indirectly do things it won’t do on direct questioning seems to be possible through a large number of methods.