Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations
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{ "epilogue": "Reports revealed that OpenAI hired hundreds of contractors to manually review real ChatGPT chat transcripts, including those containing personal data, as part of a practice called Project Lily. Following the disclosures, coverage focused on explaining how users could opt out of AI chatbot training across platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
The story quieted without a definitive conclusion in the coverage." }
Epilogue added 44d ago, after coverage quieted.
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Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations The Next Web · 54d ago broke it first
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