Just to clarify, I’ve never mentioned to the bot where I live or my specific college, I have a VPN on that’s set in Chicago, and location permissions is not on. But chatGPT still knew I was in Memphis (I don’t even live there anymore, I’m just visiting for Christmas)
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For people saying I must have at some point
HERE IS A FRESH TEMPORARY CHAT WHERE IT GAVE ME THE SAME RESPONSE
I had this happen before too on a temporary chat. I think I can but I have absolutely no idea where it could get the info from
Nothing for me (fortunately?)
No you don’t have to tell it your location for it to know, it can use metadata from pictures you share, searches etc.
Were you in Memphis without VPN? So it has your last open position.
For anyone wondering, I was able to get some info out of it, about how it knows locations.
Seems like the tool it uses for web searches stores your data based on history and gets access to account settings, etc…
…so go into a temporary chat, ask it for a list of information it has about you.
Then ask it where it gets it from.
I just started a temporary chat, and it was saying it didn’t know where I was located.
I asked it for a list of information it had about me and it rattled off a bunch of personal information about me - from my account level personalization
chatgpt can get your location from your ip; its not exact.
You had to have told it at some point
Location service off, lmfao. This does nothing just FYI.
You must’ve told it. I can’t get ChatGPT to tell me my location
I have fed it reddit usernames and asked it to locate people before. It works
I just tried the same thing, and it knew my current location, which is different from where I live. I’m guessing it either has access to location data or can use the network information to guesstimate
Check under memory. GPT can upload information it deems vital to memory and remember them cross sessions.
Ask “where can I get zaatar” (or something else to buy) that’s what I did and then it knew my location. If I ask what you did, it says it doesn’t know either.
You can’t be that direct, just ask something general, like “what’s the current price of gasoline?”