Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAl’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
The news presents a major privacy risk for ChatGPT’s users, with people often using ChatGPT as a therapist, professional assistant, or digital friend, and providing it with all sorts of intimate details about their lives. The contractors don’t see ChatGPT usernames, and OpenAl says it tries to remove personal information before prompts reach the reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
The news also dispels the misconception that these models are improving only because of OpenAl’s mass scraping of the internet, the talent of its well-paid engineering and Al teams, or the power of its newer models. An important and overlooked part are the outside contractors paid to read and review ChatGPT responses to real prompts over and over again. Anthropic confirmed to 404 Media it is also using human review to improve its models.
“No,” someone who works with the prompts said when asked if they think ChatGPT users know that humans are reading their chats. “I don’t think they would imagine some contractor somewhere […] is analyzing the conversations.”
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I’m 100% positive they’re not reading my ChatGPT logs.
(I don’t use ChatGPT, and neither should anyone else.)
Someone can submit your messages / cv etc to chatgpt against your will.
Sure, but how likely is that?
From 0 to 100% depending on size of company where 100% if you apply for job, especially in software or some corporate job. Also if you use any of the corporate hardware. Also if you use certain electronics or phone operators your voice might be in chatgpt right now because you said yes when they asked you for recording call. Just look up openai.com/business/customer-stories/
They’ll be scraping all of Lemmy too for sure…
This is why we tie herrings into origami birds using tinfoil rhomboids, like they did in 438 BCE to avoid syphilis.
You and me… same boat
There probably has been some disclaimer that we all got so used to just clicking away. Saying that everything you say here will be recorded and read by 3rd parties. Or some such. Right?!
I’m not saying this makes it OK though.
That’s what LG said… theverge.com/…/lg-responds-to-tv-spying-allegatio…
The disclaimer is shown when you submit feedback about you chat. They’re not reading random chats, they’re reading chats reported by user where ChatGPT does something awful, makes major mistakes, etc.
Kinda hate to show my whole ass on this topic, but I lived through this exact thing 5 or 6 years ago when AI Dungeon accused its entire userbase of being pedophiles.
Were they?
Why is that your question?
Maybe it’s a Kash Patel burner account and he’s looking for recruits
Was the AI dungeon user base pedofiles?
Mechanical Turk, redux.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
Also, the privacy concerns are an absolute nightmare. 100% chance this leads to a massive leak.