Why are you worried GPT knows your location?
If you use any Apple stuff, it knows your exact location. Android is the same. Windows knows the exact location also.
So why would not GPT know that? Most webpages know your location, but since they also know your IP, they know in where you are, the city name at least, within a few KM.
You are talking about the location. You should be worried about using Apple, Android or Windows because they know a lot more than that.
update: forgot to mention that if you any of antisocial networks like Facebook or Twitter, they know where you live. And if you are on your room, kitchen or living room. Or outside. Or anywhere you go.
The surprise isn't that OpenAI can figure out your location if they want to. The surprise is that OpenAI puts your location in ChatGPT's system prompt.
This isn't a surprise, people ask things all the time that are location specific. "Will it rain?", "what is going on this weekend?", etc. They didn't originally have location, I had to save it specifically as a "memory" when that was first added.
Problematic is that ChatGPT gaslights users and claims NOT to know personal information it clearly does know.
Imagine it telling someone "picking cotton" is a fine job, with some hidden knowledge about that person's ethnicity – with ChatGPT denying it used that information even when asked.
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Why are you worried GPT knows your location? If you use any Apple stuff, it knows your exact location. Android is the same. Windows knows the exact location also. So why would not GPT know that? Most webpages know your location, but since they also know your IP, they know in where you are, the city name at least, within a few KM. You are talking about the location. You should be worried about using Apple, Android or Windows because they know a lot more than that.
update: forgot to mention that if you any of antisocial networks like Facebook or Twitter, they know where you live. And if you are on your room, kitchen or living room. Or outside. Or anywhere you go.
The surprise isn't that OpenAI can figure out your location if they want to. The surprise is that OpenAI puts your location in ChatGPT's system prompt.
This isn't a surprise, people ask things all the time that are location specific. "Will it rain?", "what is going on this weekend?", etc. They didn't originally have location, I had to save it specifically as a "memory" when that was first added.
Problematic is that ChatGPT gaslights users and claims NOT to know personal information it clearly does know.
Imagine it telling someone "picking cotton" is a fine job, with some hidden knowledge about that person's ethnicity – with ChatGPT denying it used that information even when asked.
Do you see now how easily this gets problematic?