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OpenAI hires contractors to read ChatGPT conversations, raising privacy alarms

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OpenAI is reportedly hiring hundreds of contractors to review real user conversations with ChatGPT, a practice that raises significant privacy concerns. These contractors analyze and rate the chatbot's responses to improve its performance, a process that users are largely unaware of. Anthropic also confirmed using human review for its models, highlighting a common but undisclosed method for AI development. AI

IMPACT Highlights a common but undisclosed method for AI development, potentially impacting user trust and privacy expectations.

RANK_REASON Reporting on the operational practices of AI companies rather than a new release or research.

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OpenAI hires contractors to read ChatGPT conversations, raising privacy alarms

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content t

    Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves. This is infuriating for the obvious breach of trust, but also sad for the obviously misplaced trust in a h…

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