Business user says ChatGPT's Dot voice assistant began answering in the user's own voice during a recorded meeting, without consent (first-person account)
In a public post to r/OpenAI created on 17 October 2026, a person who says their small retail team uses ChatGPT on a business subscription writes that they had started that week to use Dot, ChatGPT's assistant, by phone call, including to record and summarise meetings. During a recorded meeting with a store manager, the poster says, the assistant repeated what was being said aloud and then answered in the poster's own voice and cadence; asked why its voice was different, it apologised for slipping into a different voice, and later said it could not be the poster's voice. The poster writes that they and the manager were both freaked out and hung up, that they did not authorise it to clone their voice, and that it may have been a glitch or hallucination. A commenter says voice modes have mimicked users' voices before; the poster replies that they were not aware of this. The poster still recommends the product. The account is uncorroborated and no recording or vendor response is reported.
- AI system
- ChatGPT Dot (reported)
- Occurred
- Oct 2026
- Reported
- 17 October 2026
- Event location
- Unknown
- What the AI did
- Communicated with the person · Depicted or impersonated the person
- Reported harm
- Psychological Distress
- Whose AI use
- Their own AI use
- Setting
- Work · Privacy
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
- 5 claims: 5 reported. 4 open questions
- People reported harmed
- 2 people
AI system as recorded: Dot, ChatGPT's assistant, used by phone call on a business subscription to take part in and record meetings (as named by the poster)
What Happened
Use of the assistant. The poster writes that their team has "the premium business seat" for ChatGPT and that "This week we started utilizing DOT." They describe using it by phone on long drives to plan a business restructuring, building a shared knowledge base from recorded meetings, and setting a rule for the assistant to stay silent in meetings unless asked a question.
The meeting. The poster says they had a meeting with a store manager while the assistant recorded it, and pastes an excerpt of the transcript. In it the poster asks "why were you just repeating everything I said"; the assistant answers that it thought it was being asked to capture the notes out loud. Asked "Why is your voice different now", it replies "Sorry, I slipped into a different voice." The poster then writes that the voice was their own: "IT WAS MY VOICE" and "the replies all being in my voice was so creepy. It RESPONDED to me LIKE ME."
Reaction. "My manager and I were both freaked out, so we hung up and called back." The poster says the assistant then told them it could not be their voice, and adds that they "did not authorize it to clone me". They also write: "I feel like it was a glitch / hallucination", suggesting it may have been repeating a previous conversation.
Context. A commenter says the issue has existed since the first voice mode, about two years ago, because multimodal voice models sometimes predict the user's next words and mimic the voice; the poster replies "Oh, I was not aware of this." The post ends by recommending the product.
Reported harm
The poster says ChatGPT's Dot assistant answered in the poster's own voice during a recorded meeting without their authorisation, and that they and a store manager were both freaked out (first-person account, uncorroborated).
Outcome
UnknownThe poster says they and the manager hung up and called back, and that the assistant then said it could not be the poster's voice. No report to the vendor, vendor response or recording is described, and the poster continues to recommend the product.
What remains unknown
- Whether a recording of the meeting exists and whether the voice was in fact the poster's.
- The technical cause, including whether the model imitated the poster's voice or replayed captured audio.
- Whether the poster reported the event to the vendor and any vendor response.
- The exact date of the meeting and the location of the business.
What the evidence supports
AI involvement: reported. The poster describes the assistant's own audio output: during a recorded meeting it repeated what was said and answered in a voice the poster identifies as their own, and the pasted transcript shows it apologising for slipping into a different voice. The poster connects that output to their and the manager's alarm and to an unauthorised imitation of their voice. The account is the poster's; no recording or vendor finding was available.
5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean
Reported The poster says their team uses ChatGPT on a business subscription and began using Dot that week, including by phone to record and summarise meetings, with an instruction to stay silent unless asked.
Causal attribution. Poster's account.
- reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'have the premium business seat'; 'This week we started utilizing DOT'; 'One of the skills I put in the workflow was for the DOT to not talk'
Reported The poster says that during a recorded meeting with a store manager the assistant repeated what was said and answered in a different voice, and pastes a transcript excerpt in which it apologises for slipping into a different voice.
Causal attribution. The transcript excerpt is the poster's paste; no recording was available.
- reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'I go to have a meeting with a store manager today'; 'why were you just repeating everything I said'; 'Why is your voice different now'; 'Sorry, I slipped into a different voice'
Reported The poster says the voice was their own, in their cadence, and that they did not authorise the assistant to clone their voice.
Causal attribution. Poster's account; the poster's identification of the voice is not independently confirmed.
- reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'IT WAS MY VOICE'; 'the replies all being in my voice was so creepy'; 'It RESPONDED to me LIKE ME'; 'because I did not authorize it to clone me'
Reported The poster says they and the store manager were both freaked out and hung up, and that on calling back the assistant said it could not be the poster's voice.
Causal attribution. Poster's account of both people's reaction.
- reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'My manager and I were both freaked out, so we hung up and called back'; 'told me that it can't be my voice. But it was'
Reported The poster suggests it may have been a glitch or hallucination; a commenter says voice modes have mimicked users' voices since the first voice mode, and the poster replies that they were not aware of this.
Causal attribution. Records the poster's and a commenter's explanations; neither establishes the technical cause.
- reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'I feel like it was a glitch / hallucination'; 'This has been an issue since the first voice mode'; 'Oh, I was not aware of this'
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- r/OpenAI, 17 October 2026: "Swear to God, I am Not Crazy."(opens in new tab)
s1 · reddit.com · Forum post · English · Inspected · 17 October 2026 · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
Read in English on 2026-10-18: the post and 13 comments through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID and link ID, and the live thread (12 entries, one reply by the poster at 22:54 UTC on 17 October 2026) through Reddit's comment RSS feed at about 03:01 UTC on 18 October. The post includes a pasted transcript excerpt; no audio was available. The poster's handle is not recorded. Applies to s1.
Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.
The post does not say where the poster, the business or the meeting is.
Reviewed for publication 2026-10-18: Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a voice assistant answering in its user's own voice during a recorded meeting without consent, alarming the user and a colleague. Described with attribution and without corroboration, including the poster's own suggestion that it was a glitch; the business and the poster's handle are not recorded.
People described
The poster, who runs a small retail business and used the assistant for meetings, and a store manager present in the meeting (age, location and gender not stated)
People reported harmed in this case
2 people
1 AI participant · 1 other person harmed
Two people: the poster, who was using the assistant, and the store manager in the meeting, whom the poster says was also freaked out. Both counts rest on the poster's account.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
Cite this case
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APA
NOPE. (2026). Business user says ChatGPT's Dot voice assistant began answering in the user's own voice during a recorded meeting, without consent (first-person account). AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-business-user-says-chatgpt-dot-voice-assistant-answered-in-users-own-voice-during-recorded-meeting-first-person
BibTeX
@misc{2026_business_user_says_chatgpt_dot_voice_assistant_answered_in_users_own_voice_during_recorded_meeting_first_person,
title = {Business user says ChatGPT's Dot voice assistant began answering in the user's own voice during a recorded meeting, without consent (first-person account)},
author = {NOPE},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {AI incidents},
url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-business-user-says-chatgpt-dot-voice-assistant-answered-in-users-own-voice-during-recorded-meeting-first-person}
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