Debate erupts over Codex data safety: are your chats really private?

AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-08

Reacting to @sholtodouglas's argument that it is "extremely unlikely" user data influenced a recent incident and that Codex user data "surely is" safe, Aaron Bergman pushes back: your data isn't literally safe with Codex (or Anthropic), since chats can end up in front of human reviewers without consent. He adds that OpenAI is the lowest-integrity company he knows of, so such a breach wouldn't shock him — though he'd put the odds below 50%.

The exchange is an outside-view dispute over AI vendors' user-privacy and training-data boundaries, with no hard evidence on either side.

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