OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter, a Tiny Model That Scrubs PII Without an API Call

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OpenAI has released a new open-source model called Privacy Filter that detects and masks PII locally.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/openai-open-sources-privacy-filter-a-tiny-model-that-scrubs-pii-without-an-api-call . OpenAI open-sourced Privacy Filter, a 50M-active-parameter model that detects and masks PII locally in one pass. Here's what's actually new, and what's hype. Check more stories related to tech-companies at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-companies . You can also check exclusive content about #openai , #open-source , #privacy-filter , #openai-privacy-filter , #tiny-model , #ai , #openai-open-sources , #hackernoon-top-story , and more. This story was written by: @abstraction . Learn more about this writer by checking @abstraction's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . OpenAI released Privacy Filter under Apache 2.0 — a 1.5B-parameter (50M active) bidirectional token-classification model that detects and masks PII in text locally, in a single forward pass. It runs on a laptop, supports 128K context, hits 96% F1 out of the box, and is fine-tunable with minimal data. Eight entity categories: names, addresses, emails, phones, URLs, dates, account numbers, and secrets. It's context-aware (not regex)…

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Topics covered

• OpenAI
• privacy
• AI models
• open-source
• data protection

Keywords

• OpenAI
• Privacy Filter
• PII
• open-source
• AI
• model
• data privacy

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Organizations: OpenAI

Products: Privacy Filter

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