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An unsettling glitch has surfaced among some users of OpenAI’s latest models o3 and o4-mini, where the chatbot appears to address people by name—despite them never having shared it in conversation or enabled personalisation settings.
Simon Willison, a software developer and AI commentator, posted on X (formerly Twitter) a screenshot of ChatGPT using his name in a reasoning trace. “Does anyone like the thing where o3 uses your name in its chain of thought, as opposed to finding it creepy and unnecessary?” he wrote.
Others soon chimed in with…
