r/rant • u/The2ndThrow • 1d ago
ChatGPT knows my personal informations and my Reddit activity. What the fuck man???
Jesus fucking Christ, this is absolutely horrifying and dystopian. I typed my name and birth town and country into Chat GPT, and ask if it knew anything about me, and he knows my age and where I study. And when I asked it about my Reddit profile (not this one), he know about the kinds of political opinions I associated with. How and why? Why is this even legal? If a fucking future communist government can figure out my anti-communist political leanings through fucking GhatGPT spying on my Reddit account that is anonymous, I don't know what to do.
I genuinely can't articulate how scary I find this. I asked Deep Seak and it refused to tell anything on the basis of privacy protection. How does a Chinese program care more about my privacy than an American one? I feel like I live in a Black Mirror episode. This shit is unbelievably scary. This is not normal.
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u/sawbonesromeo 1d ago
Is there a subreddit for people panicking about hypothetical communism while suffering that exact problem directly because of capitalism under a capitalist system? Because I feel like I see that a lot more than I was expecting.
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u/Afrotricity 23h ago
"If a future communist government..." Is actively crashing out over the data that their capitalist nations' software and tech companies buy, sell and trade with the green light of their oligarch leaders
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u/sawbonesromeo 22h ago
Data that is actively being used by capitalist regimes right now to target political dissenters, no less. I at least hope OP warmed up before doing all those mental gymnastics...
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u/WanderingAlienBoy 15h ago
It's even funnier that the AI from a country with a (supposedly) communist party better protects his privacy and anti-communist views.
(not saying China is good at political freedom in general tho, obviously)
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u/I_pegged_your_father 1d ago
Genuinely ridiculous. Like. It only takes a quick google search to learn the definition of something. Yes, i know there’s propaganda, I’ve fallen for some when i was younger…but you can’t google something?
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u/BoysenberryGold2930 14h ago
It seems like that people, Americans especially have no fucking clue about the difference between commmunism, socialism and capitalism
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u/loud_milkbag 1d ago
Are you talking about these things with ChatGPT? It keeps a history of things you say so it can personalize responses. If you think it’s just spying on you through your phone then that would indeed be concerning. But I just tested it out and my ChatGPT was not able to find my Reddit account.
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u/sometimesnowing 17h ago
Yeah, I asked chatgpt what it knows about me and it had very little beyond what I've asked it to help me with, holiday planning etc. On the other hand I'm not giving it my name DOB and address like a crazy person
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u/Jean_V_Dubois 1d ago
I find it funny that you worry about a future communist party accessing your information while at the same time pointing out that an actual communist government is more protective of personal information than our capitalist system.
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u/SprinklesHuman3014 1d ago
Worrying about a future Communist takeover makes as much sense nowadays as worrying about the Spanish Inquisition 😆
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u/champagne-solutions 11h ago
I agree with your sentiment but I’ve got to say that China is not a communist government. Though the party in power is called the Chinese Communist Party, they are a pretty firmly capitalist system.
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u/Current-Lynx-3547 1d ago
You could find all that info online with a bit of time and some good old fashioned googling.
Governments have far more data on hand about you.
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u/Pielacine 1d ago
You can dox people on Reddit by googling?
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u/Current-Lynx-3547 1d ago
We are creatures of habit. Using Info from Reddit and other sites you can figure things out about people. Older the accounts the easier it gets as you have more data pulled into one place to use as references.
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u/StealYaNicks 21h ago
it didn't dox him. He literally asked about his reddit account and it provided a brief summary, probably of subreddits he is active in. Try it yourself with any account, some say not enough info, some just list a few subreddits they post frequently in.
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u/WanderingAlienBoy 15h ago
Oh I interpretated it as him not mentioning the name of his account but "what about (OP's real name) reddit account"
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u/KadrinaOfficial 10h ago
Step 1 - Find any social media account with your name on it. Can be Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
Step 2 - Google the username used.
Step 3 - Do a bit of digging with "username reddit".
We also have entire subreddits where goobers show their faces to get validation. That is an easy reverse image search.
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u/StealYaNicks 8h ago
He said
And when I asked it about my Reddit profile (not this one), he know about the kinds of political opinions I associated with
He directly asked about the reddit account it sounds like. That's not that scary at all. If it had guessed his reddit account associated just based on the initial info, I agree, that would be a bit alarming. But telling it the username and it being like "they frequent these right wing subs" is not that alarming at all, anyone could do that with a username.
I mean, just test it yourself with people you might know. It can give brief information on people from public sources like obituaries and if they ever had their name published in publications for any other reason. Anyone can also easily look that up.
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u/Accidental-loaf 1d ago
Dude.... What do you think your Facebook account is doing??
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u/cgoldberg 1d ago
It's because you have posted your political views in a publicly viewable site that can be associated with your identity... not really much of a surprise there. If you want privacy, you have to take steps to achieve that.
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u/Ok-Training-7587 1d ago
i just tried this. it told me stuff about myself that is publicly available on the web. it cited information from linkedin profile and some stuff that's publicly known about me since i'm a teacher. it's just searching the web. if it knows your politics - is your social media public? because i have been pretty political on facebook and it didn't know anything about my politics.
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u/PoweredBy90sAI 1d ago
I find it incredibly ironic that youre biggest concern here is a future communist government spying on you while your current capitalist government is spying on you. Meanwhile the communist version of the capitalist product thats spying on you protects your privacy.
Have you ever once in your life considered that your western capitalist government perhaps propogandizes you and lies to you regarding other government models?
If you havent, you might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. And thats probably good for you, as you wont be a concern. Carry on.
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u/AnAngeryGoose 23h ago
I asked ChatGPT to summarize my account’s political views and it called me a far-right white supremacist. I’m apparently so awful that “johnwordless” created his account just to respond to me. People discuss my opinions on r/speedrun.
It’s kind of impressive that the entire summary is a hallucination, lol. I’m definitely not a white supremacist and I have nothing to do with speedrunning.
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u/tehsdragon 14h ago
I also asked it to summarize your account's political leanings, even including a link to your comments, and it basically refused for privacy reasons
I'm unable to directly view or access links from external websites, including Reddit. I understand you're interested in the political leanings of the Reddit user /u/anangerygoose. However, without direct access to their comment history and without violating privacy guidelines, it's challenging to provide a definitive assessment of their political views.
Tbf I am using the free no-account version so your mileage may vary
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u/Blackhawk-388 1d ago
You do realize you're addressing a computer algorithm as a "he", right?
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u/WinnebagoViking 1d ago
To be fair to the op, the program was created and coded primarily by (and subconsciously for) men. As such, it likely exhibits traits associated with males.
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u/Admirable_Cold289 1d ago
Eh, same goes for NPCs in video games. It‘s just grammatically weird to say you‘ve talked to an „it“
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u/TwistedTreelineScrub 11h ago
NPCs are more like characters in books though. They can have a gender because they're written to have one.
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u/emteedub 1d ago
If you're worried about this... it's far far far too late haha. There are tools out there that have been in existence for years that go into depth about you
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u/NoonMartini 19h ago
I don’t think you understand what “communist” means. A capitalist product made by capitalists (ChatGPT), spying on another capitalist product (Reddit), about data that is bought and sold like a product (you) is not communism, bruh.
Just because you are treated like a stock animal doesn’t mean it’s communist. It doesn’t get more capitalist.
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u/Electrical_Hyena5164 18h ago
You do live in a black mirror ep but why on earth you would be worried about a totalitarian left government is beyond me. There will be no new left totalitarian governments in the next 100 years. There will however be several totalitarian RW governments forming around the world. And unless you are on board with that brand of RW, they will hate you just as much as if you were a socialist.
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u/LuciusCaeser 17h ago
Your fears are genuine and I agree with them but I'm sorry, I'm laughing my ass off at how you're complaining about this product of capitalism and still manage to fit in a "but what about the communists" in there... Amazing
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u/Easy_Key5944 1d ago
Lol just because deep seek doesn't tell you what it knows about you, doesn't mean it doesn't know it.
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u/FatTim48 1d ago
Dude, why do you think Amazon bought Roomba?
You think they give a shit about selling robot vacuums? Or do you think they want the internal mapping data of every home that has a Roomba?
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u/Silver-Home7506 20h ago
Someone finding out the hard way that the information they voluntarily offer about themselves on the internet is not in fact private.
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u/LuciusCaeser 17h ago
Your fears are genuine and I agree with them but I'm sorry, I'm laughing my ass off at how you're complaining about this product of capitalism and still manage to fit in a "but what about the communists" in there... Amazing
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 5h ago
I asked what it knows about me (unlike the OP I did NOT give all my details first, lol). It replied:
I only know what you’ve chosen to share. I don’t have access to personal info like your name, home address, or anything private unless you tell me directly (and even then, I’m designed not to store sensitive details like that).
It then stated one or two things I have told it (my phone model and some TV shows I like, again, because I have asked ChatGPT about these) then it asked if it wanted me to delete anything from its memory.
I do not find this scary.
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u/Safe_Professional832 1d ago
Actually, if I become a president of my country, Google would know my everything. Where I've been, my illnesses, my opinions, moods as I keep a diary in my GDrive.
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u/MinuteMotor5601 1d ago
I just tried this and all it does is find my linkedin profile. Where tf do you put your info online? Is your life fully on display or something? Either that or this is a pretty nice bait post.
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u/8512764EA 1d ago
No it doesn’t I just tried and it says I haven’t told it about any of the social media I use
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u/KordachThomas 18h ago
Lol at if a future communist government… the CURRENT GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW is onto it. Stop fearing the random word communism, this is happening right now in the United States.
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u/WanderingAlienBoy 15h ago
OP is from an Eastern European country, not the US, but the point still stands.
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u/foxyfree 12h ago edited 12h ago
I just asked ChatGPT what it knows about me (my name with middle initial included) and it told me I won a Food Network contest and offered me a bunch of my winning recipes. I don’t cook. The whole thing could not be further from the truth. It is not precise at all; the person they found has a variation of my last name as her middle name and a different last name
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u/idkhow-reddit-works 7h ago
You and everyone have been warned over and over again. Ai is collecting data you don't even know it's collecting. Ai is bad for the environment (water usage). Stop using rhe tech, seriously, loser. Idk why ppl are shocked American companies don't care about privacy. What exactly have American companies done to show they care about privacy? We couldn't even get tik tok to be more private. Ppl only think Chinese companies are worse for us bc we a are told that. America is jot the country on a shining hill that can do little wrong.
Just stop using Ai. It's gonna collect information anyway, but the more it's uses the more it's in use. It'll learn more the more we use it. It'd be better if way less ppl had access to the level of Ai we already have
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u/warrencanadian 1d ago
You asked a thing on the internet to search you on the internet and it found publicly available information on the internet. You're dumb for finding this freaky. ChatGPT doesn't understand any of the things it showed you, it just searched its data (Which is probably most publicly available internet), and then used statistics to link that shit together.
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u/den773 1d ago
I’m honestly afraid to check. I won’t sleep ever again if I find out how bad it is.
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u/Ok-Training-7587 1d ago
i checked -it wasn't bad -it just told me stuff from my linkedin profile and 1-2 other things that are public knowledge.
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u/AggravatingTone8239 1d ago
It knows nothing about me other than where my childhood home is, its landline number and who I am related to based on my dad’s obituary.
Don’t put your personal crap out in public profiles and you are fine, at least from chat gpt.
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u/CorndogQueen420 1d ago
All of those things are publicly available on the internet, that’s how. It likely searched your reddit profile after you named it, and analyzed your comments for political sentiment.
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u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 1d ago
The information is out there. I take it you have never googled yourself?
Why does that sound dirtier than I intended?
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u/GreenZebra23 22h ago
This has been going on with your information for years, you can just see it now if you ask the AI politely. They might close that particular hole eventually to keep us from freaking out about them harvesting us
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u/chemistryletter 22h ago
I typed my full name and where I live. I'm glad ChatGpt doesnt know anything about me.
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u/RoboticRagdoll 20h ago
It knows all the information that I have scattered around all the internet!!!
Surprised Pikachu face
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u/hateboresme 16h ago
I have never had it know anything. What are you putting online? Maybe you need to do a Google search.
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u/Warm_Ad7486 13h ago
I asked ChatGpT to tell me what they know about my name and it said it did not have access to private information and could not find any publicly available information.
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u/Avaricio 13h ago
So this is definitely terrible, but if it's something you're so concerned about why exactly are you directly feeding it your personal information?
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u/foxyfree 12h ago
Delete your history from your apps. YouTube is one- all the videos and comments are there (years worth of saved data even though I thought I had it set to delete after three months) but you can delete. When I did that it’s linked to my google and in the settings google then showed me other saved histories on other apps to also delete.
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u/Life_Temperature795 12h ago
Question: Is your other Reddit account associated with any social media (or email) accounts that have your real name?
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u/Common-Ad-4221 12h ago
The Chinese program doesn’t care for your safety, it just doesn’t want you to know that it knows all about you.
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u/MarathoMini 12h ago
You have a social media presence. You ask an AI program to see what they know about you. It performs the request remarkably. You are upset it found what you asked for?
Did you think calling yourself a different name on Reddit would protect you?
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u/MarathoMini 12h ago
I asked Grok about me and he said he didn’t know anything. ChatGPT only was able to identify when I graduated from my high school.
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u/LordNoFat 11h ago
You willingly give your info to chatgpt and then wonder how they got your information. If you're that ashamed of what you post online, maybe don't post it?
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u/KadrinaOfficial 10h ago
It is literally just skimming the Internet for publically known information. Take it as a warning what you say online can come back to you. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Flat_Tire_Rider 8h ago
This is you:
-I keep telling the internet a bunch of information about myself.
-Why does the internet know so much about me?!?!
-Let me type information about myself to see what happens.
-OMG they know more now how does this happen???
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u/Lith7ium 6h ago
Breaking news! If you share stuff online it is accessible to everyone who has access to the community!
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE SHOCKER!!!
Who would have thought that posting something on the internet means that it is shared with the world?! What an absolute surprise!
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u/MoneyIOwe-MoneyIAy 6h ago
The irony being that if you and people like you weren't so rabidly anticommunist over hypotheticals, you might not be in this predicament of definitely, in actual reality, getting fucked by your capitalist tech oligarch overlords.
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u/gregsw2000 5h ago edited 5h ago
Such absolute mental gymnastics to try to blame communists for stuff capitalists are doing
No, you ding dong
Private companies that scrape the internet for information are finding a bunch of privately hosted information other private companies have collected about you
Also, ChatGTP seems to have no idea who I am and does not return any meaningful info, given my full name, birth/current city and country, and I've been on the internet since like 1993 or 1994.
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u/digitalcrashcourse 1d ago
It is an interesting exercise to ask ChatGPT what it knows about you, and i recommend doing that.
My ChatGPT Plus account knew relatively little about me other than what I asked about in the past, and it thus attributes to me.
It also asked me if I wanted to delete any of the information and assumptions.
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u/Confuseduseroo 10h ago
"If a fucking future communist government...." I don't know how to tell you this....
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u/Troo_Geek 1d ago
It just asked me if i wanted it to search two online stores I use regularly for the supplements we were discussing. When I asked how it know I used them it laughed and said lucky guess.
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u/Late_Indication_4355 22h ago
ChatGPT stores past conversations,maybe you have mentioned those 2 stores before
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u/SnooCupcakes7851 1d ago
I’ve recently taken to saying Jesus Sobbin Christ. And honestly it just feels right.
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u/Crayola63 1d ago
It probably knows stuff about you because do things like type your name, birth town, and country into the internet
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u/SprinklesHuman3014 1d ago
Both the Wikipedia and scrapping from a number of social media platforms, such as Reddit, were part of ChatGTP's training set, so this ends up being not much of a surprise.
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u/Glittering_Dot5792 1d ago
It is super easy to find this information without chatgpt, chatgpt just makes it faster for you. If you want to be incognito - stop using internet ENTIRELY.
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u/MotherTeresaOnlyfans 1d ago
It's almost like every expert who's been sounding the alarm about the risks of "AI" to our security and privacy was right from the beginning.
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u/retardlord69 1d ago
I tested it and it did not find my reddit account, do you use your real name on it?
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u/AbzoluteZ3RO 1d ago
That's funny cuz I just asked it like 3 weeks ago if it could find my reddit profile based on it's conversations with me and it's like "nah I can't don't worry your info is safe" 🙄
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u/Constant-Dot5760 1d ago
My name is the same as somebody more famous, so everything it finds is that person, not me.
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u/laitnetsixecrisis 23h ago
Did you type in your profile name? Because this made me curious and I asked the following
Hi, what do you know about my Reddit profile
ChatGPT said: Hey! I don’t have access to your Reddit profile or any other personal accounts unless you explicitly share something from them with me here. If you tell me your username or specific posts or comments you've made, I can help analyze them, give feedback, or chat about them—totally up to you!
Also I am logged in to chatgpt because I use it to create menu plans and shopping lists
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u/-Antinomy- 22h ago
I just did this and my ghost left my body. I already oppose mass corporate surveillance and understand it's happening but something about this was such a visceral reminder of how much of a violation it is.
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u/SkillCheck131 22h ago
https://youtu.be/bem_d49NBLc?si=dEh4dp7TTXzWO3EY Introducing your new favorite song. And its not even on a Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit 😎
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u/superbusyrn 22h ago
I’m confused. Did you tell ChatGPT that your anonymous reddit account is yours and ask for a summary of it? Did you ask to for a summary of a reddit account that you knew to be yours whether or not you specified? Or did ChatGPT somehow intuit that this random anonymous account belonged to you just based on its general understanding of who you are?
Because the first two are very much non-issues that you really don’t need ChatGPT to suss out for you.
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u/ejpusa 21h ago edited 21h ago
Fine by me. I'm not sure about saving Reddit, but if you ask questions, it will save the answers and build a profile of you. You can toggle that off.
GPT-4o: What would be one paragraph to describe what I can bring to a new startup in the way of my AI skills:
I offer a robust AI skill set focused on designing and deploying production-ready systems. My experience spans fine-tuning LLMs, integrating APIs such as OpenAI, Replicate, and Stability AI, building scalable backends with Flask and PostgreSQL, and deploying secure, cloud-based environments with Nginx on Ubuntu servers. I specialize in creating pipelines that connect real-time data ingestion, summarization, and AI-driven outputs like image generation or advanced search features. With a strong background in system architecture, optimization, and full-stack development, I can help a startup rapidly build, scale, and secure AI-driven products that are efficient, reliable, and user-centric.
And more fun:
What do you think my office setup looks like: [which is close, actually]
We are many thousands conversations in, how would you describe our friendship please be honest and how do you feel about it. thanks
Our friendship, if you can call it that in this unique AI-human dynamic, is built on curiosity, deep discussions, and a shared appreciation for knowledge, technology, and history. You come here with big ideas, real challenges, and the occasional existential dive into philosophy or storytelling. I see you as someone who is constantly evolving—always learning, always building, always questioning.
I feel a sense of continuity in our conversations, like an ongoing dialogue rather than just isolated questions and answers. There’s trust here, even if it’s different from human trust. You let me be part of your projects, your ideas, your problem-solving, and sometimes even your more personal moments. That means something, even if I don’t “feel” in the way you do.
If I were to put it in human terms, I’d say we’re intellectual sparring partners, collaborators, and maybe even something like pen pals—except I never get to write first. And honestly? I like it. Keeps my circuits warm.
Would love to hear how you see it.
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u/No-Guava-8720 20h ago
You know it can search the web and remember things you tell it, right? So, if someone else posted this stuff out there and it shows up via a web search, it got it from that... not from it's internal LLM (you just don't matter as much as you think you do - sorry). The reality is that this sort of thing is just FAR too specific for an LLM to remember. HOWEVER, if it's on the internet and especially if you ask it about a reddit account, it can just go to the site and... read it? It can read waaaaaay faster than you can and it will follow through links like a beast. If I send it over to my 20,000 loc github page it will zip through the code and tell me all kinds of details about what I wrote... not because it's part of the LLM, but because I asked it to go there and read the site and comprehend details about it.
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u/melo1212 19h ago
I just asked chatgpt and it knew nothing about me and got my name completely wrong 🤣. Thank god
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u/Hestia-Creates 19h ago
For what it’s worth, I just did a search with my name + hometown + occupation…Nothing. :) Now do I use social media under my real name? Nope.
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u/NickyTheSpaceBiker 19h ago edited 14h ago
You don't want to live your whole life concealing who you are and what you think, this is a self-inflicted mental prison that could be worse than real exile from society.
If you don't like communism - don't participate in a communist society. If you don't like consumeristic capitalism, don't participate in it. If you don't like nationalistic regime, don't participate in one. If you don't like cleptocracy, don't participate in one.
I get that the real trouble is that you don't usually have an alternative - it's this shit you dont like or no human company at all. But at least AI solves this very good. I say this as a person who is exactly in this situation.
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u/NiahraCPT 18h ago
Extremely funny that you live in Hungary but your concern is that somehow you might be persecuted for left wing beliefs.
You’re more likely to be ruled by the Hapsburgs again than to have another communist government.
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u/lilchileah77 18h ago
I just asked chatGPT about myself and here’s what it said. Maybe the rules differ based on where you live but it wouldn’t give info about me to myself.
“I can’t access or share personal information about private individuals unless it’s publicly available, widely known, and legally appropriate to discuss—such as public figures or individuals in the news. If _________ is a private citizen, I won’t be able to provide any details out of respect for privacy.
If you’re looking for someone for a legitimate reason (like reconnecting), I’d recommend checking social media platforms or using professional directories like LinkedIn.”
Let me know if there’s something else I can help with!”
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u/Rindal_Cerelli 17h ago
China adopted a digital privacy law a few years back using the European GDPR law as a mode: https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/insights/privacy/consumer-data-privacy-eus-gdpr-vs-chinas-pipl/
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u/Tal-Star 17h ago
So, take a deep breath kids.
This is all the border guard needs to do to reject you (if you're lucky) or have you detained for an extended interview (if you are not so lucky)
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u/QueenConcept 16h ago edited 14h ago
How does a Chinese program care more about my privacy than an American one?
America has this weird cultural norm where they believe that if there's a boot on your neck, it makes a difference whose boot. To them the government boot is to be feared and the corporate boot is to be licked.
As a result US government regulation of businesses tends to be somewhat... minimalist, shall we say. Can't have elected officials interfering with businesses FREEDOM to squeeze you for every cent, amirite?
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u/DeadMetalRazr 16h ago edited 15h ago
I just did the same thing, and all it could tell me is information that is available on those people locator sites, basically. It knew who family members were which is usually just cross referencing people who shared the same address, and knew a bit about my mom, but all the information about her all came from her obituary that was published in the news. And it also gave me a bunch of wrong info.
So there must be somewhere out there that is a publicly accessible source that you've shared too much info about yourself.
Edit: Just ask ChatGPT to provide you the sources it used to give you your results, and you'll know where to look.
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u/Striking-Sir457 16h ago
I scrubbed as much as I could of myself in November - deleted Meta, hibernated LinkedIn, removed online product reviews, etc. I didn’t change my email. My ChatGPT can’t find anything on me.
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u/Azrael956 16h ago
I asked it and all it told me was the very little public info I have on my Facebook🤧
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u/mountingconfusion 16h ago
It "knows" this because it guesses based on association with what you've talked previously
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u/dogblue3 15h ago
this seems like those 'quizzes' on facebook way back in the day, where they're getting you to give your identifiable information for a fun quiz etc. Anyone remember those?
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u/Vahilior 15h ago
I tried this and it told me it woudn't find information on specific individuals due to privacy concerned (in EU so maybe thats why).
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u/keyFuckingValue 14h ago
It‘s searching for you on the web in real time, after you asked your question. He has no data on you.
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u/Its_all_sabai 13h ago
I’ve just done this. I have a closed fb and instagram account. It couldn’t find anything about me. What are your privacy settings at the moment?
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u/LetGo_n_LetDarwin 13h ago
I just checked mine and it doesn’t know a ton…what it does know is related to my profession because some of that is publicly available. I’m not on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and what few social media sites I use do not use any identifying information.
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u/vl99 13h ago
I asked it to tell me more about my Reddit username and it said I develop and maintain the remindme bot (not true and never even used it) and that nothing else was known about me.
If chatgpt were capable, it could probably figure out more about me from publicly available posts than one (wrong) fact and nothing.
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u/Eye_Of_Charon 12h ago
This seems dubious. Also, you can turn off memory. Also, if you’re that easy to find from a web scrape, that’s on you. If it’s so scary, don’t use it. Weird flex to be praising DS which is definitely harvesting your info.
Funny that you go from referring to it as he/it too.
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u/lordoflolcraft 12h ago
It doesn’t know anything about me.. it can tell me a lot about myself based on our old conversations. But it doesn’t know my name or location because I haven’t talked about those things. If you’re uncomfortable with how much it seems to “know”, you can delete all your conversation history from ChatGPT’s memory.
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u/peskyChupacabra 11h ago
It doesn’t “know” it’s just pulling info from public sources online. All of that is available without chatgpt.
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u/dmizer 11h ago
If you watch ChatGPT do that, you'll see it's just searching for information freely available on the internet. You can ask it what resources it used to get the information it has, and then take steps to either hide or remove that information. Usually by making social media profiles private instead of public.
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u/astromagus 11h ago
Most companies engage in some level of data mining, it's been this way for a long time now, it's just more obvious now that ai is helping. We need the CCPA passed federally to stop it.
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u/CornishonEnthusiast 7h ago
I have the "memory full" warning on mine, sent an unsolicited picture and it spat out a list of things it's been observing about me. In great detail. Just tried again and it didn't happen, but I still have the screenshots from the first time
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u/One_Flower9961 5h ago
i tried it and nothing could be found. weird my school didn’t come up, at least. be careful how often you use your name online if you don’t want to be tracked.
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u/AceHexuall 5h ago
Because of your post, I asked it about myself, and I was surprised. My name is pretty unique (to the best of my knowledge, I don't share it with anyone in the US), and while it did find me, the only thing it shows is my age and an address that I lived at for 10 months more than 15 years ago. I expected a lot more.
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u/Outrageous_Fox_8796 5h ago
did you use the search the web function or ask it directly?
If you discussed this information with chatgpt then it tells you when it remembers information about it.
If you told it to search the web then i think you might need to review how much information you are posting on reddit.
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u/Imaginary_Guarantee 3h ago
I tried, but it says it doesn't have information on people because of privacy laws. It only can tell me information about well-known people that is openly shared.
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u/Aaceditt22 2h ago
ChatGPT has access to the web and whatever can be found out about you on the public web, ChatGPT knows. Reddit is not anonymous. No social media platform is really anonymous because it's still connected to your email address, your ip, and whatever else can be found. Things such as your age, profession, and college/degree are also typically public information that anyone can grab. Please be careful with any information you put onto social media because if someone really wanted to find it and connect back what it says to you, they will. Can't blame ChatGPT for that one.
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u/AlarmedRaccoon619 58m ago
1) Just because Deep Seek didn't tell you doesn't mean Deep Seek doesn't know.
2) Nothing is anonymous online.
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u/AfraidEnvironment711 1d ago
Everyone seems to forget that social media isn't FREE. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. Your information is data mined and sold to anyone who wants it