Ex-OpenAI researcher joins debate claiming AI labs steal your prompts

suchenzang · x · 2026-09-24

A discussion sparked by @nihilunbounded argues AI labs do effectively steal user prompts, through mechanisms more subtle than the literal reading, with critics like Buckmaster and Thom being "directionally correct."

Former OpenAI researcher suchenzang amplified it with a biting take: mathematicians will soon "derive copyright and GDPR from first principles," while enforcement gets framed as decel and bad for America amid what she sarcastically calls the era of "survival-of-the-fittest as the new American dream." The thread reflects ongoing unease in the AI community over how labs handle user data and training data disputes.

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