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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

OpenAI's 'Project Lily': humans reading your ChatGPT chats for training, including sensitive data. Privacy and labor implications both hit.

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Why it matters

This is a workforce and privacy story that will shape how enterprises think about ChatGPT data governance and labor practices in AI. It moves the needle on procurement decisions and policy conversation.

The key facts

5 to know
  1. Project Lily: humans reviewing ChatGPT user prompts for model improvement

  2. Reviewed chats contain sensitive and personal information

  3. Leaked internal documents + real prompts obtained by 404 Media

  4. Raises data privacy and labor practice questions for enterprises using ChatGPT

  5. Likely to trigger contractual review and compliance scrutiny among large customers

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Publisher excerpt: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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