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Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

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195 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 14:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jcranmer ◴[12 Nov 25 14:42 UTC] No.45900823[source]▶
"How dare the New York Times demand access to our vault of everything-we-keep to figure out if we're a bunch of lying asses. We must resist them in the name of user privacy! Signed, the people who have scraped literally everything to incorporate it into the products we make."

OpenAI may be trying to paint themselves as the goody-two-shoes here, but they're not.

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greyman ◴[12 Nov 25 15:26 UTC] No.45901340[source]▶
But that vault can contain conversation between me and chatgpt, which I willingly did, but with the expectation that only openai has access to it. Why should some lawyer working for NYT have access to it? OpenAI is precisely correct, no matter what other motives could be there.
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1. jcranmer ◴[12 Nov 25 15:58 UTC] No.45901746[source]▶
https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/

> We may use Personal Data for the following purposes: [...] To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties.

OpenAI outright says it will give your conversations to people like lawyers.

If you thought they wouldn't give it out to third parties, you not only have not read OpenAI's privacy policy, you've not read any privacy policy from a big tech company (because all of them are basically maximalist "your privacy is important, we'll share your data only with us and people who we deem worthy of it, which turns out to be everybody.")