ChatGPT knows your location?

Hi all!

So, with the recent news of that squirrel getting killed, I decided to ask chatgpt ‘is it legal to own a squirrel’.

The response from the AI was ‘no, it is generally illegal to own a squirrel in (my state)’.

I proceeded to ask how it knew my location and it said it ‘chose a location by random and doesn’t actually use our location data’.

Obviously, I don’t buy that answer, so, I opened another chat and asked it another legal question (for shits and giggles) and it proceeds to use my state again. So, yet again, I asked how it knew my location. Again, it said ‘I chose a state at random’.

My question is, does chatgpt actually know your location? I tried to socially engineer the AI into disclosing that it tracks our location, however, it wouldnt budge.

Granted, I don’t really care that much if it were to track me. I’m moreso just curious.