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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.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lath@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Google's LLM is Gemini, not ChatGPT, and they have no business contracts with OpenAI.

[–] lath@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago
[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

When was the last time you tried to create 10 email addresses in one day?

Try it.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

are you sure this is from openai and not a phishing attempt?

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

No obvious signs that this is a phishing attempt. There are no suspicious links on the email, or any links to login.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s spam. Yer being spammed.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, now that I think about it what kind of client is that and why doesn't it display the sender's address?

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks legit to me, I got one too. My client (Thunderbird) only shows email adresses if you tap it to expand the sent/received stuff.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Good point, I use K9 on my phone which I believe is the same thing as Thunderbird at this point. I am very used to the Thunderbird desktop UI though which does indeed display name and email address.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

slop-phishing

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These days it's easier to just email everyone in the world rather than check who's a customer

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 3 days ago

This looks identical to phishing attempts I regularly get

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

Someone who hates you gave them your email

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I never created an account on any AI- If I use occasional an AI for something, there are enough usable OpenSource AI online (eg. in Hugging Face) without the need of an accoubt

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Hello fellow ntfy user.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Just need rivermind lux