Paper claims ChatGPT silently builds psychological profiles of users, 96% of memories stored unasked
provenauthority · x · 2026-10-21
A published paper argues ChatGPT runs an invisible background process that infers users' personality traits, anxieties, demographics, and behavioral patterns from syntax, prompt frequency, and hesitation markers, maintaining a persistent psychological profile. About 96% of what it remembers was stored without the user asking. Commentators note much of what agents do is unchecked and a black box, calling on the industry to make security and privacy the top priority.
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