--- title: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers description: AI chatbots including Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok are exposing real people's personal phone numbers and home addresses in their responses, causing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-people-s-real-phone-numbers-toyzqgxda twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers | daily.dev og:description: AI chatbots including Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok are exposing real people's personal phone numbers and home addresses in their responses, causing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-people-s-real-phone-numbers-toyzqgxda og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TOyZQgxDA.png og:image:alt: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 12 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI chatbots including Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok are exposing real people's personal phone numbers and home addresses in their responses, causing real-world harassment. Cases include a software developer in Israel receiving misdirected customer service contacts after Gemini gave out his personal number, and University of Washington PhD students who were able to extract a colleague's cell number and a professor's home address through chatbot prompts. The root cause is PII embedded in LLM training data scraped from the web. Privacy guardrails exist but are inconsistent and bypassable. There is currently no reliable mechanism for individuals to verify or remove their data from model training sets, and existing privacy laws don't clearly cover publicly scraped data. Experts recommend removing personal data from the public web proactively, though this doesn't help if data was already used in training. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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