ChatGPT is getting more “social” with a new feature that will allow you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product.
It's "completely optional," OpenAI says . However, even if you don't want to participate, anyone who has your number and syncs their contacts will give OpenAI your phone number.
“OpenAI may process your phone number if someone you know has your number saved in their device’s address book and chooses to upload their contacts,” the company says…
But why follow someone on ChatGPT? Since April, there have been rumors that OpenAI wants to create a social network. We don't know much about it since then, except for the video creation app Sora, which exists outside of ChatGPT and is more of a novelty.
Sharing contacts could be the first step in a larger chatbot change. ChatGPT also supports group chats for up to 20 people to chat while using the chatbot at the same time. Contact syncing could make it easier to invite people to these conversations…
OpenAI claims that it will not store any data that appears in your contact list, such as names or email addresses, only phone numbers.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
