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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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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?

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

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        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.

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          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.

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

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    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