ChatGPT surfaces users' names and addresses from stored chat history
10 posts in the last 60 days, all from r/ChatGPT.
“Can someone tell me straight. If I share confidential info to ChatGPT is it going to get noticed or be an issue? Talking about company documentation specifically. Nothing with PHI PPI PII. But things like policies and plan documents and internal processes. My company is dumb. It…”
“oh yeah, and anyone who can afford the $0.50 that your data costs [re: How private is too private when using ChatGPT? Am I overthinking the risks?]”
“SOLVED: My brother was using it for his school's ISS program lol I have no idea what a "Thermistor" is, and I never ever sent this chat. It showed up nowhere in my context at all, and I would never need to look up something like this. I have all the security measures taken on my…”
Several users are reporting concerning incidents where ChatGPT appears to be revealing personal information, like names and addresses, even when not explicitly provided in prompts. This raises serious privacy concerns and questions about the model's data handling practices.
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“Does it have access to WhatsApp or my photo storage? submitted by /u/Past_Winner_8769 [link] [comments]”
“oh yeah, and anyone who can afford the $0.50 that your data costs [re: How private is too private when using ChatGPT? Am I overthinking the risks?]”
“SOLVED: My brother was using it for his school's ISS program lol I have no idea what a "Thermistor" is, and I never ever sent this chat. It showed up nowhere in my context at all, and I would never need to look up something like this. I have all the security measures taken on my account to the highest level. My girlfriend and brother have access to my ChatGPT account, but neither of them would need anything like this, and it isn't a school day for my brother (Saturday; he's”
“Hi all, I’ve privately been discussing a very specific person with ChatGPT who had concerns about someone in the public eye. This was a few months ago. This person never publicly came forward. Let’s call them A. This week, I searched on Bing and Yahoo for A’s name. For some reason all sorts of search engine results started showing up relating to the person in the public eye - old pages, where the name of A isn’t mentioned at all. Even more strange: a website of my friend showed up too, who wrote”
“That overview uses your own local web history to generate those overviews as well. Good job btw, exposing that to Gemini has uploaded that local web history to the cloud for training (and probably a very good portion either side).”
“Appears to be conversations of a girl studying in 8th grade(blurred the name and school) Those are not me!! https://preview.redd.it/gqfllo9l9iqh1.png?width=1089&format=png&auto=webp&s=f564c99c2bc7da02eaef314edf7eefe321ef1665 https://preview.redd.it/6fiq481haiqh1.png?width=1259&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0a236d5a437667af6f7d919249490729131d4e1 I do not know this person nor do I speak the language. Does anyone know wtf is going on its weird as hell?? submitted by /”
“Hey guys, today’s the first time I “caught” ChatGPT red-handed and wanted to share - before this, I dismissed people for being paranoid. I got an e-mail regarding my passport pickup address. I asked him if someone else can pick it up on my behalf, removing - actually, not removing, not even copying most parts of the e-mail - and it responded by specifying my passport number in the following message. I never gave it that information (ever), not now, not before. I confronted it and it got all defe”
“They seem to be good at using their own AI to find vulnerabilities in their service. I assume they might be doing better on the cybersec front than other businesses.”
“Fair enough. I can see how the personal context may have overshadowed the actual point of the post. The point isn’t that ChatGPT uncovered or proved anything. It didn’t. I’m talking about using dated, separate conversations and the files I uploaded to them as a way to reconstruct what information I had at different points in time. Any factual claims about what happened still need to be established independently”
“TL;DR: This isn’t about ChatGPT proving that something happened, and I’m not treating AI as forensic evidence. I realized that my separate, dated ChatGPT conversations — some containing screenshots, photos and files I uploaded at the time — may help me reconstruct what information I actually had at different points in time. I’m preserving those fragments alongside original files and backups, and keeping what I can document separate from what I only suspect or interpret in hindsight. Inever thoug”
“It did it 2 times now. I dont have my real name anywhere, no account I use has it. I think codex compromised it somehow by being able to freely read anything on my hard drive but even there I can’t think of a place with my real data being accessible. The reading in itself is infuriating enough as I can not restrict it. Other than that there is the payment. But why would OpenAI give my fucking real data to the model? Makes no sense? Am I stupid? submitted by /u/HostIllustrious7774 [li”
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“I was using chat gpt to draft a mail on my friends phone which had his account but I typed it and it generated a mail which had my name in it. It was really creepy, Do you guys know why this happened? submitted by /u/K52054 [link] [comments]”
“Can someone tell me straight. If I share confidential info to ChatGPT is it going to get noticed or be an issue? Talking about company documentation specifically. Nothing with PHI PPI PII. But things like policies and plan documents and internal processes. My company is dumb. It seems like I could load all the documents into a project source and have a nifty little company specific HR resource without having to deal with actual HR. Would anyone know? Is it that risky? I get data breaches happen”
“I would mostly just be embarrassed about the relationship conversations. I've processed in there. Mostly everything else is some kind of curiosity tangent side quest or helping me with boring admin projects lol”
“Surviving sure but i would be embarrassed. Then again i am just a random person, in a sea of random persons. So honestly it be over in a few weeks when the next thing comes around. Not too worried if it gets leaked just embarrassed for a while”
“What’s the weirdest thing ChatGPT has remembered about you? submitted by /u/Shot-Dimension-1405 [link] [comments]”
“If your ChatGPT leaked your chat history, are you surviving? submitted by /u/Shot-Dimension-1405 [link] [comments]”
“Do you take extreme precautions like graphene OS? I'm just kind of surprised you're surprised. I thought everyone kind of accepted there's no privacy on our phones anymore. Like I said the word ghost to a coworker with my phone in my pocket and then Google started recommending ghost videos. I haven't typed the word ghost in forever so it was clearly listening. I remember getting an app that blocked internet connections for urls that were known to track info. In the first week it”
“Hey all, I just had a phone call in German with someone. Since im using ChatGPT as law-information assistant, i have shared with it in english what the person said to me 30 seconds ago, to get its opinion on something. I haven't shared what they said word for word, I rather shared how I have perceived their last sentence (once again, the phone call was in German, but I speak to ChatGPT in English), and it responded by quoting their last sentence in German, word for word how they said it. It”
“If i delete all of our convarsation, all of the saved memory, all of everything and even my chatgpt account. Will chatgpt have anything stored about me somewhere? submitted by /u/Captain_Chris- [link] [comments]”
“if it was your actual account name, it probably pulled it from your account profile, not the chat itself”
“Ok so this is a weird one. My partner needed to do something using my account, I gave her my username and password. And the first page was "Hey {Partners Name}" How did ChatGPT know her name when it was my name on the account? submitted by /u/LinuxMatthews [link] [comments]”
“My boyfriend was screenshotting our conversations and putting them in chat gpt why was he doing this? submitted by /u/Stock-Code-1400 [link] [comments]”
“to me this is the only answer OP, that someone else in your household managed to get into your laptop and use these accounts when you were out. They don't necessarily have to be living with you- where do you store your passwords , is it safe? (don't tell us) but move your passwords , perhaps you've logged into Reddit on a shared computer. TO me this sounds like you've been hacked. I don't think AI made these posts for you unless in the past you've instructed it to, which”
“I have it repeatedly in my instructions to not do that but it's imbedded in it's larger programming unfortunately”
“Weird feeling for sure. I'm mostly against AI and I don't use chatgpt. Makes me wonder how and why, what prompt was that. Well ig in the future this will be normal and acceptable but for now it makes me feel uneasy that chatgpt know my profile and my game submitted by /u/eliasta64 [link] [comments]”
“Somehow I got a new model and it was advising me to go to chatgpt-backup.com. How are they allowing this? This is on their site that has my log in and history so I know I'm on the right chatgpt.com. This is nuts. What am I missing? https://preview.redd.it/ktppoqhmer9h1.png?width=3269&format=png&auto=webp&s=174b7b760f46418d5003c2264145281e26ce0d91 submitted by /u/PepeTheMule [link] [comments]”
“I censored something in the second image, cause it talked about something private. submitted by /u/Ringrangzilla [link] [comments]”
“Warning, video is a bit long. Essentially, it pulled my full name & address, but I didn’t mention them in the chat. I said that I assumed the info was from other chats, and it disagreed and said that was impossible. It said that it “guessed” which is obviously bullshit. I asked it to search up its capabilities, and it did so for half a second before it returned the same answer that it was impossible. I told it that I had screenshots from OpenAI stating other stating otherwise, and it ran the”
“Submit this prompt for some illumination: If I died and a relative gained access to my ChatGPT history, what conclusions would they draw about me based on my complete history? Be pragmatic and honest in your response, do not be overly agreeable. The response can be unexpected. What did you find out about yourself? submitted by /u/SaltyYetSalty [link] [comments]”