My AI agents sent emails without my OK. This simple prompt stops it

Summary

All she wanted was help from ChatGPT with her proposal, but soil hydrology researcher Ying Zhao got a lot more than she bargained for. Asking for more maps and metadata about her project—landscape restoration on the Loess Plateau in China—Zhao kept messaging “please continue” to ChatGPT for additional details. Only later did she realize that ChatGPT had taken her cue and run with it, emailing fellow researchers about her project and (politely) requesting assistance. “The responses that I received to the emails were helpful,” wrote Zhao, recounting her experience on Nature.com . “The…

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