OpenAI hired contractors to read real ChatGPT chats, per 404Media

VoidStateKate · x · 2026-09-15

Per 404Media (via @unusualwhales), OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' conversations, raising privacy concerns.

One user's viral response: she claims she saw it coming and deliberately loaded her GPT iterations with so much absurd content that anyone reading it would "instantly go into psychosis" trying to decode the "latent pattern swarm" she's building.

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