Frontier labs don't want your chats — they want the world around you when you typed the prompt
marktenenholtz · x · 2026-10-20
- Mark Tenenholtz offers a contrarian take on the 2023 AI/data-safety panic: your chats are probably far less valuable to frontier labs than people assume.
- What labs actually want is the kind of world surrounding you when you wrote the prompt — your context and environment, not the conversation text itself.
- He admits he isn't sure whether that's a better or worse prognosis than the data-hoarding fear.
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