# An important note about AIs and personal information

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**Created:** [May 10, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-important-note-about-ais-and-personal-information/1029974 "2026-05-10T23:01:27Z")\
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Well, that’s disappointing. Here’s a thread that you participated in and in which we all had some fun. It started with asking ChatGPT what it thought of us from our chats with it, but then it digressed into asking it about our SDMB personalities. Aside from the intentional jokes, I think most of us thought it was fairly accurate if excessively sycophantic.

> [@So what does ChatGPT think of you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-does-chatgpt-think-of-you/1019275):
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> We’ve had numerous threads on what we think of ChatGPT. But what does it think of us? I just logged in and got an unusual pop-up that said that GPT now has a sort of holistic memory of all our chats, and a button to click for “more information”. The button led to this auto-generated prompt to GPT: “Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy!” The quote below is what it said. Yes, I know it sounds sycophantic, but keep in mind that GPT was recently tweaked to dial back the sycophanc…

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