How well does ChatGPT know me? This simple prompt revealed a lot - try it for yourself

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• AI chatbots learn more about us with every interaction.
• They can therefore tease out patterns in our thinking.
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"You're the kind of person who asks a simple question about turkey basting and somehow ends up researching whether AI can alter human consciousness… and honestly? I respect the chaos."

That was what ChatGPT told me when I asked it to summarize my personality with a gently roasting joke based on my conversations with it over the past year. (And fair enough: I definitely spent more than a few minutes discussing proper turkey-cooking technique with it this past Thanksgiving, and I also frequently use it to explore some of the more far-out fringes of AI research.) 

It was part of a self-reflection ...