Critics blast OpenAI's anthropomorphic privacy wording as dodging legal responsibility
BasedRaddka · x · 2026-09-09
- OpenAI's privacy statement says it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models"
- Critics note the passive voice deliberately obscures the actor: who derived the data and who used it? It doesn't happen automatically
- The argument: OpenAI uses anthropomorphism ("ChatGPT did it") to avoid legal and financial responsibility — and isn't even good at it
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