Kairan Zhao on the Limits of Machine Unlearning as a Privacy Method
Machine unlearning is a broad category encompassing a variety of techniques intended to remove - or lessen - the presence of sensitive information or concepts such as personal data, intellectual property like branded content and even artistic styles from machine learning models. In the privacy context, machine unlearning is often discussed in relation to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its AI Act, as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act. But the chasm between what some in the policy world might believe machine unlearning can do and the actual technical capabilities of these methods is wide.
