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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
So why the fuck am I receiving a privacy policy message in my email.
This is addressed to my old gmail account which has never been authenticated with OpenAI or ChatGPT. I've confirmed this by looking at my authenticated third party apps.
What are they doing here and how did they get my real name associated with my email address.
Someone may be using a form of identity theft to use ChatGPT in your name ... likely because they ran out of free tokens for their own account and did this instead of paying for more.
You should change your email password, just to be safe.
If you want to take the time and effort to fuck with them, go log into ChatGPT with your email address (tell them you forgot password and do their forgotten password procedure) and then once logged in, change the password there as well.
No account exists as far as I can tell. Attempting to sign in with my email address takes me to an account creation page.
This makes the identity theft scenario unlikely to me. Good thing to test though, thanks.
This does make the whole thing even more weird though as I why would I need to know about a privacy policy change if I never had an agreement with them to begin with.
In case you didn't know, you're automatically giving access of your account's contents to Google's LLM for "training purposes". If you didn't opt out of that, you're being affected by this privacy policy change.
Google's LLM is Gemini, not ChatGPT, and they have no business contracts with OpenAI.
My bad.
That seems a bit nonsensical to be honest. Why go through the bothersome process of hijacking an email when you can create an unlimited amount of emails for free?
When was the last time you tried to create 10 email addresses in one day?
Try it.