Emma Raducanu Asked ChatGPT to Profile Her Own Personality. She Found It Uncomfortably Accurate.
Tennis players are using AI chatbots to scout opponents, manage schedules, and apparently learn a little too much about themselves.
Key points
- Emma Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion, regularly uses ChatGPT, an AI chatbot made by OpenAI, for everyday decisions.
- Raducanu asked ChatGPT to produce a "Chat Wrapped", a personality summary based on her conversation history, modelled on Spotify's annual listening recap.
- The chatbot's personality read-out was accurate enough to unsettle her.
- Tennis players across the sport are wrestling with how AI tools change training, preparation, and daily life.
Emma Raducanu was scrolling through her phone when a thought struck her. She uses ChatGPT, the AI chatbot made by OpenAI, constantly, for small decisions and large ones alike. "Every small thing," she says, laughing.
So she ran an experiment on herself.
Spotify publishes a feature called Spotify Wrapped each year: a personalised summary of every song and artist a user played. Raducanu had the same idea for her chatbot history. She asked ChatGPT to comb through their conversations and produce a "Chat Wrapped," a personality profile built entirely from the questions she had asked it.
The result gave her pause.
"It was giving me a rundown on my personality," she told The Guardian. "I was like: 'It's a little bit too accurate.' Very clear, very concise. No nonsense, straight into the question. I was like: 'OK, I can relate maybe. Some of that is true.'" She laughed it off, but the discomfort was real.
What does this tell us about how athletes use AI?
Athletes are using AI tools far beyond the gym or the training court. Raducanu's experiment is a small but vivid illustration of a broader shift: elite sports people now treat AI chatbots the way an earlier generation treated search engines, as a first stop for almost any question.
Scouting is one obvious use. A player can feed an opponent's match statistics or interview transcripts into a chatbot and ask for patterns and weaknesses. That kind of analysis used to require a dedicated analyst and hours of video review.
Personal organisation is just as common. Scheduling, travel logistics, diet queries, even working through a frustrating loss. The chatbot is available at any hour and never charges a coaching fee.
Should players (or anyone) worry about what AI knows about them?
Raducanu's Chat Wrapped moment is a good reminder that every question you type into a chatbot is data. The system learns the shape of your thinking and your blind spots, at least within a conversation. Our 25 July story about a man who used ChatGPT to trace his birth mother after 56 years of searching showed just how much a chatbot can infer from what people volunteer about themselves.
For ordinary users, a few practical habits matter. Avoid typing financial details or sensitive medical information into a public chatbot. Read the privacy settings on any AI tool you use regularly. And if a chatbot tells you something about yourself that stings a little, it might just be paying attention.
Tennis is still working out where AI helps and where it flattens the human judgment that makes competition interesting. Raducanu hasn't resolved that question. She just knows the chatbot has her number.
Common questions
Can a chatbot really build an accurate personality profile?
A chatbot like ChatGPT can identify patterns in the questions you ask and the topics you return to, which can feel like a personality sketch. It is not a scientific assessment, but it can surface genuine tendencies.
Is it safe to use ChatGPT for personal planning?
For general scheduling and decision-making it is broadly safe, but avoid sharing financial details or sensitive medical information with any public AI chatbot.
