Hacker News

New stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Developer ported Word for Windows 1.1a from 1990 to run natively on Windows 11(neowin.net)
    discuss
  2. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later(astralcodexten.com)
    discuss
  3. "Antedisciplinary" Science (2005)(plos.org)
    discuss
  4. Why does a Nix store path survive garbage collection?(labcraft.dev)
    discuss
  5. Show HN: ThimbleDb, an encrypted lightweight low latency open source database(github.com/jason-doyle)
    discuss
  6. We Have Named Arguments at Home(corrode.dev)
    discuss
  7. OpenRouter: Server Tools Marketplace(openrouter.ai)
    discuss
  8. Shared Memory for Coding Agents(getbelay.vercel.app)
    discuss
  9. Lifestreams: A storage model for personal data: ACM SIGMOD Record: Vol 25, No 1(acm.org)
    discuss
  10. US plan for 90 day diesel export ban could have significant impact on Europe(politico.eu)
    1comments
  11. Open OCI spec for agent sandboxes(linux.com)
    discuss
  12. LLMs can write tool workflows. Will they choose to?(github.com/kukushko)
    discuss
  13. The International AI Race May Not Be Won by the Smartest AI(phroneses.com)
    discuss
  14. S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in vote(missionlocal.org)
    1comments
  15. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar(blog.google)
    discuss
  16. One day of AI reading: 5.7M crawler reads of a 60M-company index, by engine(engagemii.com)
    discuss
  17. The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week(technologyreview.com)
    discuss
  18. Pinocchio, make copilot agents real by giving them memory(github.com/chiedo)
    discuss
  19. Three Years Later: What Happened to 1,927 Public API Specs(routebase.dev)
    discuss
  20. We Built Safety into Muse(meta.ai)
    discuss
  21. The Gnome LLM Policy That I Want(gnome.org)
    1comments
  22. Every Muse user gets a free computer in the cloud(twitter.com/dps)
    discuss
  23. Ask HN: Are .shop domains down?
    2comments
  24. Gemini 3.8 with Live Avatar(cloud.google.com)
    discuss
  25. macOS Can't Clone "Dumb" Git Repositories over HTTP/2(agwa.name)
    discuss
  26. Node.js built-ins that replaced NPM packages(flaviocopes.com)
    1comments
  27. CISA active Linux kernel CVEs (CVE-2025-39964, CVE-2026-53266, CVE-2025-39682)(github.com/mc493)
    discuss
  28. LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth(basin.la)
    1comments
  29. Cheaper LLM Labelling(entropicthoughts.com)
    discuss
  30. Armbian for Android TV Boxes – Turn Old Hardware into Linux Servers(digitalescapetools.com)
    discuss

Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, Lawsuit Claims

32 pointsby 2h agoopenclassactions.com
13 comments
2h agoHN ↗

If anyone assumes their AI chats are private, they must be stupid. Of course, all AI companies are going to evaluate chat sessions for improving their models whether it's disclosed in the privacy policy or not. They're investing tonnes of money into this, so your privacy is a negligible problem for them.

1h agoHN ↗

Would a regular person be stupid if they believe what OpenAI promises? They may just toggle the privacy promising switches in the settings as per what they advertise. They don't expect things to leak out after that.

35m agoHN ↗

Promises from strangers that will likely suffer no consequence for violating them?

Some people have forgotten that we are part of nature, red in tooth and claw.

10m agoHN ↗

Would a regular person be stupid if they believe what OpenAI promises?

100%

9m agoHN ↗

"Promise" is a strong word here.

According to the complaint, 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.

Would a "Regular" person interpret the policy such that the described party was one OpenAi "promised" not to share data with?

1h agoHN ↗

Just like what happened to these poor mathematicians, you should never use LLM for any serious business.

43m agoHN ↗

"you" and "we" are so very over used here. In Enterprise services, there are entire companies who take contracts to do "actual work" and the corporate mothership now has the power of the purse, and martini lunches. Meanwhile, aggressive entrepreneurs hire temp workers and outsource to do digital work under the threat of the lash.

Oh - this is just new markets stabilizing, surely the real world will stabilize back to fair contracts, health care, market rate long-term employment for families, and generally the rule of law?

Take a look at the global fishing industry, one of the oldest industries on Earth, and sharing the feature that the work product a) must constantly be renewed b) the work product is fungible. hint- slavery is real and is outsourced today, by brands that you know and trust at the grocery store.

Q.E.D.

1h agoHN ↗

OpenAI does have a disclosure, but the complaint calls it buried. A Help Center article, “Data Usage for Consumer Services FAQ,” asks “Do humans view my content?” Its answer says authorized OpenAI personnel and “trusted service providers” may access user content for several reasons, including “to improve model performance (unless you have opted out).”

And that’s the end of the lawsuit.

26m agoHN ↗

Guess if they read mine the past year, they will definitely know a lot more swear words. I am not surprised though ; isn't humans giving positive feedback etc the best way to train? Even if they say they do not.

23m agoHN ↗

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.

3m agoHN ↗

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.