OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading your ChatGPT conversations
Hundreds of contract workers are reading your ChatGPT conversations right now — and you have to actively opt out.
Why it matters
OpenAI's data labeling workforce and default-opt-in practices raise questions about data privacy, labor practices, and the human cost of model improvement — a workplace and policy issue that affects both AI practitioners evaluating ChatGPT for enterprise use and the workers doing the annotation.
The key facts
10 to knowHundreds of contract workers rating ChatGPT conversations on 1-7 scale
Goal: reduce flattery and human-like behavior in model outputs
Prompts anonymized but can contain sensitive data
'Improve the model for everyone' setting is ON by default
Users must actively disable the setting to opt out
Reported by 404 Media
OpenAI employs hundreds of contract workers to rate real ChatGPT conversations on 1-7 scale
Purpose: reduce flattery and human-like behavior in model outputs
'Improve the model for everyone' setting is enabled by default; users must actively disable
Source: 404 Media reporting
Go to the source
The Decoderthe-decoder.com
Publisher excerpt: OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data. Users who don't want their chats reviewed by…