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PublishedMay 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

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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 locksmith.” Callers were apparently misdirected by Google’s generative AI. In March, a software develop
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