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    "headline": "The Robot Hid the Camera Feed and Still Exposed the Room",
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    "dek": "Task-scoped exports preserved navigation while their residual ability to reveal household details varied sharply.",
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    "body_text": "Task-Functional Perception Distillation keeps rich perception local, then profiles exported representations for task utility, direct exposure and several inference risks. Across 120 AI2-THOR scenes, three exports produced identical navigation success and path efficiency, yet representation linkability ranged from 0.532 to 0.970. Replacing an explicit target label with a region cut target-category macro-F1 from 1.000 to 0.077 while holding task success at 0.995. A ProcTHOR replication preserved the main privacy-inequivalence result but changed which representation looked safest, arguing against one universal abstraction ordering.",
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