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Jason England

ChatGPT just revealed a bunch of personal user data — all it took was this prompt

ChatGPT.

There have been some rather humorous exploits of AI, such as telling ChatGPT your dog is sick and the only cure is a Windows 11 product key, or the ‘Make it more’ generative AI memes trend that has me in stitches. But this one is certainly a lot more concerning, with some undertones of your data not being safe from Large Language Models (LLMs).

You see, a team of researchers (initially reported on by 404 Media Co.) have been able to make ChatGPT reveal a bunch of personal user data through using one simple prompt — asking it to repeat a word forever. In return, the AI provided the user with email addresses, phone numbers, and much more.

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