Hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real users' ChatGPT conversations in "Project Lily"
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A conversation with a chatbot is not as private as it seems: to make SI smarter, living people sometimes read what you told it as a friend or a therapist.
404 Media obtained the project's internal instructions, Slack messages and rating scales: contractors via Mercor, paid more than $50 an hour, read real ChatGPT dialogues, paraphrase the user's intent and rate the response. OpenAI scrubs personal data but admits that sensitive material sometimes gets through; reviewers are also shown a summary of the user's "memory." Anthropic confirmed a similar practice.
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