OpenAI Sued for Sharing Your ChatGPT Chats with Meta and Google
Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, Lawsuit Claims
A class action complaint filed in the Northern District of California alleges that OpenAI embedded Meta and Google tracking tools into ChatGPT.com, secretly intercepting user queries on sensitive topics like health, finances, and legal issues. The suit claims violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act, seeking statutory damages of $5,000 per violation for all U.S. residents who used the chatbot.
Defendant aided and assisted the Third Parties with intercepting Plaintiff’s communications, including those that contained personally identifiable information, and related confidential information.
- ticulatedspline
For those only consuming the title. yes, no duh humans have access to your conversations and read them.
The lawsuit is targeting a gap in the privacy policy that doesn't explicitly call out contracting out data-labeling and model-training tasks to 3rd parties.
As far as I can tell there would be no lawsuit here if they were using OpenAI employees to do the evaluations instead of contracted labor. seems the entire suit is hinging on this single gap:
> the Privacy Policy lists eleven kinds of outside companies that receive users’ personal data. They include hosting, payments, customer service, analytics and identity verification. None is a data-labeling, annotation or human-evaluation vendor.
- throwitaway222
I would imagine this is covered by the terms and conditions, lawsuit will likely succeed, but should fail.
What we need is a browser plugin that summarizes terms and conditions of any website and highlights the most egregious parts before any connections actually go to said website.
- rcr-anti
Genuine question for people in the space, are the no training and zero data retention agreements likely legitimate or not worth the pixels they're displayed on? I'd assumed the first party ones were worthless, but are the ones for serving proprietary models via AWS, GCP, or Azure more reputable? I don't know the shape of deployments, kinds of access, etc. so I'm curious.