An AI Chatbot Is Randomly Giving Out Phone Numbers in Latest Strange Development
Greg Evans
2/19/2023 1:32:49 PM
Greg Evans wrote this article in Indy100:
The AI chatbot, ChatGPT inexplicably gave out a journalist's phone number after a user asked it if it was possible to use the tool on the messaging app Signal.
Dave Lee, who is a correspondent for the Financial Times working in San Francisco shared a screenshot on Twitter of another ChatGPT users conversation with the bot which somehow wound up using his phone number.
On Thursday, Lee wrote on Twitter: "Someone asked ChatGPT if it had a Signal... and it gave him *MY NUMBER*."
In the screenshot, the bot is asked if it also works with Signal. In response, the bot confirms that this is possible by listing a number ot steps the user needs to take to begin integrating the two apps.
The AI chatbot, ChatGPT inexplicably gave out a journalist's phone number after a user asked it if it was possible to use the tool on the messaging app Signal.
Dave Lee, who is a correspondent for the Financial Times working in San Francisco shared a screenshot on Twitter of another ChatGPT users conversation with the bot which somehow wound up using his phone number.
On Thursday, Lee wrote on Twitter: "Someone asked ChatGPT if it had a Signal... and it gave him *MY NUMBER*."
In the screenshot, the bot is asked if it also works with Signal. In response, the bot confirms that this is possible by listing a number ot steps the user needs to take to begin integrating the two apps.