OpenAI Has Contractors Reviewing ChatGPT Chats

Reporting says OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading and rating anonymized ChatGPT conversations (the 'Improve the model for everyone' setting is on by default), and users must disable it to avoid human review, raising privacy and data-handling concerns.

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