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.

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 knowProject Lily: humans reviewing ChatGPT user prompts for model improvement
Reviewed chats contain sensitive and personal information
Leaked internal documents + real prompts obtained by 404 Media
Raises data privacy and labor practice questions for enterprises using ChatGPT
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.