Black Mirror Moment: ChatGPT Reveals Unmentioned Personal Details
audoritos · reddit · 2026-08-06
A Reddit user reported a creepy 'Black Mirror moment' while using ChatGPT to review a paper. The model unexpectedly addressed the user's professor by name and noted how particular they are.
The user claimed they never mentioned the professor's name in any chat. ChatGPT later explained it as a hallucination confusing the name with another professor mentioned previously, but the incident raised concerns about potential cross-platform data access.
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