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Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT - Slashdot (yro.slashdot.org)
submitted 15 hours ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev
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"ChatGPT is getting more social," reports PC Magazine, "with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product..."

It's "completely optional," [OpenAI] says. However, even if you don't opt in, anyone with your number...

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[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago

Not having any friends is suddenly a net positive? I'll take it!