The debacle began when he was added to a random WhatsApp group chat filled with people from multiple countries who began asking him random questions in Spanish.
After more back-and-forth, someone eventually shared another screenshot that included a one-on-one exchange with Meta AI, the company's cross-platform chatbot, explaining that Price's phone number could be used to add it to group chats.
When training the large language model (LLM) undergirding the Meta AI chatbot, the company had likely scraped his publicly-available phone number, causing the confusion.
The journalist concluded that his phone number may have been 'scooped up' while training the chatbot, leading to numerous inquiries from people thinking he was the bot itself.
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