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

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      Yeah, and its not unprompted, the names are put into the prompt before the users input.

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    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.

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      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.

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        It’s almost like “AI” is just a silly marketing term and not actually descriptive of any of the tools you mentioned.

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          There’s nothing wrong with the term itself. Many people just think it means something else than what it actually does.

          Definitions for intelligence:

          • The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
          • the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
          • the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
          • the act of understanding
          • the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
          • It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

          Artificial just means were talking about something man made rather than a biological system.

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    4 days ago

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