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A customer invokes their right to erasure. Can you delete their data from the model?

A strong answer splits the object in the first sentence: the records in the datastore and logs are deletable and verifiable, while the memorized associations in the weights admit no delete operation, only an approximate objective. You must address the enumeration problem: the request identifies a person, the optimizer consumes token sequences, and nothing in your pipeline maps one to the other. Avoid claiming models do not memorize personal data, as this is easily refuted, or suggesting machine unlearning without a clear input set.

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