Aaaaaaaaaa

This is a fucking joke -- you need a paid account to turn off Gemini?? If anything this is the best proof of how deeply unpopular AI is (pay me or you must use the slop machine that costs me billions every year)

Welp, guess I'm not the only one that had this useless and environmentally destructive "feature" pushed to their phone. Has anyone figured out how to remove it on Android? (besides switching to Signal)

and instead use a simplistic closest-distance test to evaluate privacy risks of their method -- a test that is well-known to underestimate the risk!

What's baffling here is that the authors are aware of SOTA privacy work (DP, Stadler et al.) but chose to ignore it and use a much weaker notion.

Reading synthetic data papers in healthcare journals is often infuriating as a privacy (ex-)researcher, but I stumbled across one that is really egregious. The authors cite Stadler et al. (the initial work on membership inference attacks on SDG), to (wrongly!) dismiss a SOTA notion of privacy,

The figures and code listings have been copied as is. Truly unbelievable that such obvious plagiarism would be published in a conference organised by IEEE.

This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.