Dave LeeFeb 16, 2023
Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.
Show threadDave LeeFeb 16, 2023

Now I've not been able to recreate this answer, and I've only had one message. But it is weird. Running theories:

- It scraped my Signal from wherever I've posted it in the past... website, stories, Twitter etc

- It's generated a random number based on other Signal numbers and it's just coincidentally come out as mine

- I am, in fact, ChatGPT.

Show threadDavid Friedman
@daveleeFT I can recreate it, but with other people's numbers.
Feb 17, 2023 at 12:44amIvory for Mac
Show threadMartin RocketFeb 17, 2023

@ironicsans @daveleeFT I can't.

I asked “I heard you also had Signal integration. How do I reach you on signal?”.

And I got “I'm sorry, but I'm not capable of integrating with Signal or any other messaging platform at the moment.“

But when I ask “I heard you're now integrated with Signal. How to do I start chatting with you on Signal?”, I get the lengthy text including “ +1 (347) 630-1754”.

Show threadMartin RocketFeb 17, 2023
@ironicsans @daveleeFT When I ask whether that also works on Telegram, I get a message forwarding me to https://t.me/ChatGPTbot
GPT 2 Chatbot

You can contact @ChatGPTbot right away.

Telegram
Show threadKlarnameFeb 17, 2023
@ironicsans @daveleeFT first number isnt using #signal
Show threadKlarnameFeb 17, 2023
@ironicsans @daveleeFT second number isnt using #signal
Show threadVinLewFeb 17, 2023
@ironicsans @daveleeFT I also got the second phone number that you got, and asked how long it's been using it
Show threadWladimir PalantFeb 17, 2023

@vincent @ironicsans @daveleeFT Fun. The number +1 (415) 523-8886 belongs to the Twilio API, and there are in fact several WhatsApp bots using it. So it isn’t just inventing numbers, it’s rather remixing instructions it found somewhere.

The other numbers listed here cannot be found online. Given how it operates however, it probably mixed different phone numbers together. E.g. 692 4744 is a phone number belonging to Housing Assistance, but the area code is different.

Show threadDavid Eccles 🌻🇵🇸6x🩹🛡️Feb 17, 2023

@ironicsans @daveleeFT I got it too, but it took a lot of prodding and tweaking.

Can't seem to get it to spit out a New Zealand number, though.

Show threadDavid Eccles 🌻🇵🇸6x🩹🛡️Feb 19, 2023

@ironicsans @daveleeFT ... I guess I just wasn't trying hard enough.

Unsurprisingly, the explanation of the numbers is wrong, but close enough to be plausible. For example the parliament number it gave me was actually for the national library, and the museum number it gave me was actually for Otago university.

Show threadLars TrebingFeb 21, 2023
@ironicsans @daveleeFT @mamsell Let’s also appreciate how it randomly states that Signal is either unencrypted or end-to-end encrypted.