I asked ChatGPT to help me write a sample business email, and at the end, it included my exact phone number. The weird part? I never shared my phone number with it, and when I asked if it had my number from previous chats, it said no, claiming it randomly generated it based on my location. I can't help but feel skeptical, especially when it mentioned the odds of this happening are 1 in 10 million. How could it have known my number so exactly? I really don't think it's being truthful!
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That’s super strange! Are you using the same username across different platforms? Sometimes AI can pull data based on your online presence. Maybe try asking it to look up your username or email in its training data, just to see what it finds.
It’s likely that your phone number is somehow linked to your OpenAI account if you're logged in. ChatGPT can access some info from your account when it needs to. It could have just formatted a plausible number based on your area code, so it’s probably not as scary as it seems!
Yeah, I agree! It's important to note that it doesn’t memorize personal data. It’s trained on lots of data but not on specific user info. So, it sounds like a freak coincidence.