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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

What should I use for e.g. summarizing papers? Can I run it locally and have it good enough?