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MIT Technology Review: AI Chatbots Are Giving Out People's Real Phone Numbers — 'AI Doxxing' With No Easy Fix
MIT Technology Review reports that LLMs are surfacing real personal phone numbers when prompted, with no straightforward way for individuals to verify or remove their PII from training data. ChatGPT returned an outdated but real phone number from public government records; Grok and Claude refused similar requests. The article argues AI has lowered the barrier to targeting individuals — replacing '10 pages of Google results' with a single prompt.
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