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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

Wednesday, May 13, 2026Eileen GuoView original
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…