# Big Brother? "What you lookin' at?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-what-you-lookin-at/1031594 "2026-07-11T16:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-what-you-lookin-at/1031594/6 "2026-07-11T21:46:19Z")
There’s a whole thread about that. > [@An important note about AIs and personal information](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-important-note-about-ais-and-personal-information/1029974): > > We recently had an incident where a member of the board (who, like most of our members, prefers to keep their offline identity anonymous) posted some very vague personal information. Another member, out of curiosity, copied and pasted that post into ChatGPT, and it nearly-instantly provided a correct identification of the first member, even going so far as to mention that they’re a frequent contributor to the SDMB. Now, there was no malicious intent in this case. Most of this interaction happ… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-what-you-lookin-at/1031594)._