Freelancer finds ChatGPT voice chats leaking into transcription gig work

MilagrosMiceli · x · 2026-10-06

A freelancer landed a gig correcting auto-generated transcriptions, only to discover the audio source was people's conversations with ChatGPT. She describes the secondhand embarrassment of listening in, and reminds everyone that nothing you tell chatbots is private.

The anecdote is a stark illustration of AI privacy risks: user conversations can leak out and end up being processed by strangers via gig-work platforms.

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