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ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch

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70% Informative

ChatGPT users say chatbot began calling them by their names even though they’d disabled memory and related personalization settings.

The blowback illustrates the uncanny valley OpenAI might struggle to overcome.

Names convey intimacy, but when a chatbot uses a name a lot, it comes across as inauthentic.

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60

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51

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informal

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English

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44

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short-lived

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