{"id":923870,"date":"2025-04-19T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923870"},"modified":"2025-04-19T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:35:32","slug":"chatgpts-unprompted-name-mentions-raise-privacy-concerns-among-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/chatgpts-unprompted-name-mentions-raise-privacy-concerns-among-users\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT\u2019s unprompted name mentions raise privacy concerns among users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ChatGPT users have noticed an unsettling change\u2014the AI chatbot is referring to them by name unprompted, even when they haven\u2019t shared their names. As reported by TechCrunch, the unexpected personalisation has sparked mixed reactions, with some calling it \u201ccreepy and unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT randomly address users by names<\/p>\n<p>Several users on X (formerly Twitter) have reported that ChatGPT randomly addresses them by name, despite never inputting personal details. Software developer Simon Willison described the behaviour as \u201cweird and invasive,\u201d while another user, Nick Dobos, said he \u201chated it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ChatGPT users have noticed an unsettling change\u2014the AI chatbot is referring to them by name unprompted, even when they haven\u2019t shared their names. As reported by TechCrunch, the unexpected personalisation has sparked mixed reactions, with some calling it \u201ccreepy and unnecessary.\u201d ChatGPT randomly address users by names Several users on X (formerly Twitter) have reported that ChatGPT randomly addresses them by name, despite never inputting personal details. Software developer Simon Willison described the behaviour as \u201cweird and invasive,\u201d while another user, Nick Dobos, said he \u201chated it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}