OpenAI has hundreds of contractors reading and rating your ChatGPT chats
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-15
OpenAI employs hundreds of contract workers to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate them on a 1-7 scale, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. Prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data.
Users who don't want chats reviewed by humans must actively disable the "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is on by default.
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