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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

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People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.
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    But these were only for land lines, no?

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      True, but they also included your address.

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        Also you could opt out or had to opt in, no?

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          I remember having a ‘silent number’, i.e. opting out, was pretty rare.

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