Bonus lower-urgency fresh lead: Surge in discussion of AI chatbots doxxing real phone numbers via hallucinations (MIT Tech Review reporting + ongoing Reddit/X chatter into mid-May).

Why It Matters

Concrete privacy/identity failure—chatbots handing strangers real personal data scraped from old Quora posts etc., enabling scams. Artifact: user screenshots and specific WhatsApp incidents.

Evidence

Source evidence is in the linked daily scan.

Signal Read

Source Trail

Daily scan: 2026-05-18

• tech.yahoo.comhttps://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatbots-may-giving-phone-number-200054164.html
• news.ycombinator.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386636