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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

MIT Technology Review 13 May 2026 4h ago
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
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People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…
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