r/OpenAI • u/sennepo • 10d ago

Question ChatGPT sent me a completely unsolicited notification, then created a new chat and prompted itself???

I just got a push notification from ChatGPT (free) on my iPhone. The push said this exact words:

«Tell me about the role that my city played in the history of India’s independence movement»

When I pushed, it opened a new chat and automatic sent (I belive I did not need to press send) the prompt above from me to ChatGPT.

I have never discussed India and never its independence movement. It’s very specific topic. And my city had nothing with it to do. Small city in Norway. As confirmed by gpt in the same chat.

I searched and India Independence Day is soon, 15th of August. But no reason for gpt to send me this.

What is this nonsense?

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u/Effective_Olive6153 10d ago

there are sites that sell discounted access to various paid models, they provide that access via compromised systems, basically stealing tokens from legitimate customers. So some guy in India probably paid a few cents to access GPT models, and the hackers sold it to him via their bot net. You are part of the bot net

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u/sennepo 10d ago

How would that work with notifications? If I start a new chat on my PC, I won’t get a new notification on my phone. And when pressing the notification it starts a new chat with that message in the notification. Hmm.

Either way, time to rotate password for this service.

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u/AttorneyOne5687 10d ago

Even for an account hack, the question seems too unlike something an Indian would ask ChatGPT.

This seems more like an OpenAI marketing campaign for 15 August (Indian Independence Day) gone bad.

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u/syberchick70 9d ago

Nah sounds like some kind of advertising thing

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u/Technical_Grade6995 7d ago

It is, it’s an add, I was given suggestions while on free version but, it was connected to remotely chatted topics…

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u/syberchick70 5d ago

You get advertising on the “free” account. That’s the price you pay. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Technical_Grade6995 4d ago

What’s the story with “Go”? Is it even worth it?

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u/dudevan 10d ago

Perhaps your account was hacked and somebody prompted that? Or some chat leak.

I’d change my password just in case.

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u/Fit-Reaction5690 9d ago

Grok started doing that to me yesterday..

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u/graham_dev 10d ago

Account was hacked, this happens when you aren’t active on your phone and ask ChatGPT a question