Computer & Informatics Engineering graduate. I don't know what I'm doing.
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Had a very surprising ChatGPT experience: asked it to generate a quick summary of the WannaCry ransomware, and instead of referencing the person who stopped it by name, it simply put "(you)". When I asked it how it was able to identify that it was me, it citied its own message as something I'd said.
After pointing out I didn't say that, it did, ChatGPT replied that it was able to infer it by my account username and what it'd learned from my skillset across various chats. Not 100% sure if that's how it actually did it. Either way, pretty cool, but also a little bit scary.
It's pretty widely known that many tech companies, especially advertising ones build comprehensive profiles on their users, but it's rare that you get to talk to said profile and figure out what it knows about you.
Sources:
1) Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/federal-judge-sides-with-meta-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-models-on-copyrighted-books/
2) A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a-federal-judge-sides-with-anthropic-in-lawsuit-over-training-ai-on-books-without-authors-permission/
The following cases are still pending:
a) The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI models on news articles
b) Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney for training AI models on films and TV shows.
Had a very surprising ChatGPT experience: asked it to generate a quick summary of the WannaCry ransomware, and instead of referencing the person who stopped it by name, it simply put "(you)". When I asked it how it was able to identify that it was me, it citied its own message as something I'd said.
After pointing out I didn't say that, it did, ChatGPT replied that it was able to infer it by my account username and what it'd learned from my skillset across various chats. Not 100% sure if that's how it actually did it. Either way, pretty cool, but also a little bit scary.
It's pretty widely known that many tech companies, especially advertising ones build comprehensive profiles on their users, but it's rare that you get to talk to said profile and figure out what it knows about you.
@BenAveling
The first screenshot wasn't the first interaction, so it really isn't known if somewhere earlier there was a connection.
There would also be no way to distinguish between it just randomly attributing something to you, and it doing so because of a clue or deduction
Asking it to explain how it figured something out is a fool's errand - it doesn't know and couldn't tell you, and it is just an invitation for it to make up stuff.
@dawisco @malwaretech It's truly nothing more than a computer program running a word association game.
@malwaretech what’s more worrying is how many people will such systems quietly make errors in such profiles about and then give carefully crafted (for the error profile) answers. For example - if someone shares a handle that other people the system knows about use (I get emails for a dozen or more otber Shannon Clark’s regularly - one or two most days. Many have public profiles and web presences.
Many are women (I’m a cis man) even before LLM’s systems have assumed I was a female from my name
@malwaretech So that's how it works, you lie to yourself so you can use highly destructive technologies that fuck up our planet.
But is not your job to care for it? I guess you don't have kids or nephews and don't give two fucks about the world you leave the future generations.
And probably out of spite you'll use it even more.
Disgusting.
Don't bother to reply.
Cookies. They are everywhere!
@malwaretech I wouldn’t read into it too much, unless it consistently shows that it has and is using profile information on you, and connecting to other grounding data
I’ve had similar experiences, and then solved the mystery later on.
OR, Miessler is now running your ChatGPT account and is messing with you 😉
@malwaretech what if you ask it about another malware that has similarly been stopped by a domain-name killswitch ? Would it also give you credit ?
it seems to me like it associates you not by your name directly, but because there is "Malware" in your name
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