Leaked docs reveal 'Project Lily': OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors to read your ChatGPT chats
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-09-15
404 Media obtained leaked internal docs on 'Project Lily': OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users' ChatGPT prompts and full conversations to improve models — sometimes including sensitive personal info. Training is on by default for consumer plans, and most of ChatGPT's 900M+ users likely don't realize humans may read their chats.
- Contractors rate and critique responses; internal docs show training goals include making ChatGPT less anthropomorphizing and less sycophantic — the over-sycophantic 4o model has been tied in lawsuits to multiple suicides.
- Contractors don't see usernames, but with users treating ChatGPT as therapist and assistant, the privacy exposure is major.
- Poster lilyraynyc shares a name with the project: "Why my name though."
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