In my prior post on Amazon's "About Me" being not much to talk about I was wrong
By Davidjbuckley · October 11, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
In my prior post on Amazon's "About Me" being not much to talk about I was wrong. Destaney Wishon pointed out the option to import your AI data using their provided prompt and I ran it. The output included a health workup I had talked through with it earlier this year, written in first person and ready to paste into a shopping account. It wasn't the only sensitive thing unrelated to shopping that it returned.
The prompt (pasted in full in the comments) is careful in places. It tells the model not to guess and to skip empty categories. Run it in your AI agent and see what you get, the prompt does not send it to Amazon. It will stay local.
Then it asks for things I've been researching with no filter. The only relevance rule in the prompt covers a single section, Interests. My output also included my wife's name, our anniversary, a contractor quote with the dollar figure, and my employment status. None of it is a shopping preference. All of it came back as a clean statement in my own voice.
The shopping list was off too. It had me in the market for things I researched and bought two years ago. The prompt never asks when something came up or whether I followed through, so old research comes back as current demand. That matters to anyone in ad tech. "Write it as if I'm saying it" turns an assistants inference into something that reads like declared first-party data, with the consent weight that label carries. A stale inference with that label is worse than no data at all.
Six changes would fix most of it:
1) Exclude health, financial, employment, legal, religious, and political information by name.
2) Apply the shopping-relevance rule to every section.
3) Limit what's on my mind to the last 90 days, and drop anything I already bought.
4) Leave out other peoples details unless I add them myself.
5) Leave out dates, travel plans, account numbers, and confirmation codes.
6) Mark anything the assistant inferred rather than heard from me.
Amazon wrote a careful prompt for what to include. It needs one more paragraph for what to leave out. And remember, if you're the team at Amazon who wrote this prompt... feedback is a gift. IYKYK.