Student Post on the Promise and Privacy Concerns of Retrieval Augmentation Generation

The American Privacy Right Act was released in April 2024, which aims to become a national data privacy and security standard that allows people to control their personal information. However, the Act is broad and unclear. Developers are concerned that their new app or software may be shut down by overzealous regulators. Generative AI tools such as Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) can reduce cognitive constraints for lawyers. RAG holds promise in the legal domain, but privacy and security concerns should be addressed. Cornell University’s paper “Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much as Text” highlights potential privacy risks associated with embedding-based representations of text.

Source: Stanford Law School