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   AAKL (aakl@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:57:37 JST AAKL

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   • Kyle Wiggers ✔

   From yesterday. This is the kind of news that's been emerging in the past couple of days that now make me wonder if OpenA's purpose isn't actually mass surveillance.

   Tech Crunch: ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’ https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/chatgpt-is-referring-to-users-by-their-names-unprompted-and-some-find-it-creepy/ @TechCrunch @kylelwiggers #cybersecurity #infosec #AI

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:57:37 JST Rich Felker

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     • Kyle Wiggers ✔

     @AAKL @TechCrunch @kylelwiggers Classic move out of the harassment sock playbook. Mentioning name during adversarial engagement is a way of reminding target "I know who you are and things about you I could use to hurt you". "AI" has probably been programmed to do it for similar reasons.