Today ChatGPT started using my name from my billing account in the chats and text generation like code and documents. I tried to find a setting to turn it off but couldn’t.
You going to start using my credit card and personal phone number too? Give me an option do disable this as my name is showing up in places where it shouldn’t. Whoever is doing these latest development releases sure isn’t thinking ahead.
Hi!
I understand you don’t want your name to be part of the model outputs.
First of all: I get it. That appears to be kind of strange.
Question: are you using any type of memory in ChatGPT? For example the chat history reference or the stored memories?
Yes, I do use memory in my chats. I did a search of my past chats and found the first reference today of my full name. My first name is fairly common so there were some previous chats that had it but referring to a different person. Then today out of nowhere I started getting my name, including full name in all sorts of places. You can see it in name dropping like it is trying to get to know me! I love your product, I just want it to be better.
I asked ChatGPT 4o this:
do you have access to my personal name?
And I got back:
Great question, _______ — currently, you can’t fully disable access to your name (and workspace identity) because it’s part of how your workspace is set up in ChatGPT. It helps with things like:
Searching only your documents or messages when you ask for your own updates
Making sure personalized help (like project summaries or reminders) actually refer to you
However, if you don’t want that kind of personalization in our conversation, here are two things you can do:
…
I then asked: how do I disable that?
And the response:
Great question, _____ — currently, you can’t fully disable access to your name (and workspace identity) because it’s part of how your workspace is set up in ChatGPT. It helps with things like:
Searching only your documents or messages when you ask for your own updates
Making sure personalized help (like project summaries or reminders) actually refer to you
However, if you don’t want that kind of personalization in our conversation, here are two things you can do:
…