Commenters focused on a privacy lawsuit alleging OpenAI lets humans read ChatGPT conversations, with several arguing the complaint hinges on a specific omission: the Privacy Policy lists external vendors for hosting, payments and analytics but, according to ticulatedspline, does not name data-labeling, annotation or human-evaluation contractors. Some participants treated human review as obvious and routine - anonzzzies and drewfax said human feedback is expected and unsurprising - while others debated whether ordinary users are being misled by promises or settings. Superblazer asked if it’s unreasonable for people to trust advertised privacy toggles; toasty228 bluntly called that belief foolish, and ticulatedspline countered that “promise” might be too strong when policy language is ambiguous.
Other commenters raised adjacent concerns: rcr-anti asked if no-training and zero-retention agreements are meaningful in practice, especially when cloud vendors are involved; drdaeman pointed to tosdr as a tool for terms summaries and throwitaway222 proposed a browser plugin to highlight egregious terms. mistrial9 expanded the critique to labor ethics, warning that outsourced content labeling can mirror exploitative gig work, and imglorp invoked the Eliza effect to explain why people emotionally treat chats as private despite logical risks. Overall opinion split between seeing the lawsuit as a warranted fix to vague policy language and seeing it as addressing an obvious industry practice users should already expect.
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