ChatGPT names image-gen locations after user's hometown and university without being asked
Extra-Fun2844 · reddit · 2026-10-10
A Reddit user asked ChatGPT, in a brand-new chat, to generate a suburb reference image for their Cities: Skylines 2 build — and the model unprompted labeled points of interest with the user's hometown, their university, and a local lake. The info likely came from prior conversation memory; what unsettled the user wasn't that ChatGPT 'knew', but that it proactively injected personal location data into an unrelated creative task, highlighting how little control users have over when memory is used in generation.
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