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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

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747 points porridgeraisin | 6 comments | 29 Aug 25 11:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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troad ◴[29 Aug 25 11:56 UTC] No.45062852[source]▶
You can opt out, but the fact that it's opt-in by default and made to look like a simple T/C update prompt leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The five year retention period seems... excessive. I wonder if they've buried anything else objectionable in the new terms.

It was the kick in the pants I needed to cancel my subscription.

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1. I_am_tiberius ◴[29 Aug 25 12:03 UTC] No.45062936[source]▶
"five year retention". If it's in a model once, it's there forever.
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2. Hnrobert42 ◴[29 Aug 25 12:12 UTC] No.45063032[source]▶
Is that true? Do models get rebuilt from scratch each time or do they get iterated on?
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3. I_am_tiberius ◴[29 Aug 25 12:15 UTC] No.45063058[source]▶
I believe the big models currently get built from scratch (with random starting weights). That wasn't my point though. I meant a model created once, might be used for a very long time. Maybe they even release the weights at one point ("open source").
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5. whimsicalism ◴[29 Aug 25 13:41 UTC] No.45064024[source]▶
yes, it’s a very big loophole. and if it’s a generative model, you can just launder the data through synthetic generation/distillation to future models
6. disconcision ◴[29 Aug 25 14:49 UTC] No.45064875[source]▶
this is somewhat true but i'm not sure how load bearing it is. for one, i think it's going to be a while until 'we asked the model what bob said' is as admissible as the result of a database query