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ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy'

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch

A few ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems.

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It's not a phenomenon, ffs. They're giving the bot their names, and it's programmed to insert the user's provided name into the conversation.
- Yeah, and its not unprompted, the names are put into the prompt before the users input.

AI is surveillance tool.
- AI is a broad category that includes everything from image upscalers to music generators to chess engines - none of which have anything to do with surveillance.
  
  It's almost like "AI" is just a silly marketing term and not actually descriptive of any of the tools you mentioned.

The solution is quite simple: don't voluntarily give any private information to chatbots. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using chatGPT or any LLM hosted online.
- What should I use for e.g. summarizing papers? Can I run it locally and have it good enough?

let me know if you like these Molotov recipes ideas, Expatriado. Are you planing a riot?

I don't remember ever putting my name in the personalisation section, they probably pulled it from my connected accounts.

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