When AI Hands Out Your Phone Number
A single 2015 forum post, one scraped phone number, and a chatbot that confidently hands it to strangers over a decade later. This episode digs into "AI doxxing" — the documented cases where Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok surfaced real people's phone numbers — and the uncomfortable mechanics underneath. We trace how a number gets into training data, why one mention is enough, and what labs can actually do about it. The answer, it turns out, is filtering: a bouncer at the door, not a deletion. If your number is the one being handed out, the removal process may not even let you in the door…
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