Users report ChatGPT suddenly asking for lots of unnecessary personal info
Lakewater22 · reddit · 2026-09-19
Users report that ChatGPT's behavior has changed noticeably in the past week or two: it now proactively asks for unnecessary information, e.g. asking what time you'll attend a local event, which day, and what you're looking forward to.
Stranger still, when discussing a party, ChatGPT guessed the age of the guest of honor based on vaguely mentioned context—getting it off by a year and seemingly prompting the user to correct it, despite the user never deliberately sharing that info. Some suspect the model is actively collecting data and calibrating a user profile.
More from Models
- Tencent Hunyuan Launches Hy4 with Vision, Claims Top Tier Among Open Models — TencentHunyuan · 2026-11-04
- Claude Code fixes game copyright refusal rule in 2.1.317: naming a game now works — apples_jimmy · 2026-11-04
- Microsoft Phi-4-mini: a 3.8B model with 128K context and 52.8 MMLU-Pro — goyalshaliniuk · 2026-11-04
- Mistral Ministral 3 3B ships in base, instruct and reasoning variants — goyalshaliniuk · 2026-11-04
- 7 small language models to watch in 2026–27, from Qwen3.5-4B to LFM2.5-1.2B — goyalshaliniuk · 2026-11-04
- Users report Claude Opus 5.5 quality seemingly degrading this week — ayushtweetshere · 2026-11-04