Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by arpinum » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

Turn on "Advanced Account Security", that prevents model training from being turned on.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by _zoltan_ » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #3

> Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right now. Or simply switch to a competitor. Assuming this is not just a bug, why would one stand for such disrespectful and sneaky behavior? FWIW, I have not seen this happen for me.

what competitor?

the x20 Max plan for Claude gives you way lover limits.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by cbg0 » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:11 PM UTC

I've disabled the checkbox many months ago and it's still disabled today. EU citizen, not sure if that's relevant.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by ActionHank » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

Lol, "Outrageous that the company that chose to ignore copyright holder claims, chose to ignore my checkbox of intent despite the implied pinky promise".

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by stingraycharles » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

cbg0 wrote: post #14

I've disabled the checkbox many months ago and it's still disabled today. EU citizen, not sure if that's relevant.

Fairly certain OP lives in The Netherlands.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by franzcoughka » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

i mean, the entire company is built upon stealing protected artefacts... i'd be skeptical of any radio box that says "hey if you press this we promise we won't steal your data"

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by andsoitis » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

_zoltan_ wrote: post #13

andsoitis wrote: post #3

> Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right now. Or simply switch to a competitor. Assuming this is not just a bug, why would one stand for such disrespectful and sneaky behavior? FWIW, I have not seen this happen for me.

what competitor? the x20 Max plan for Claude gives you way lover limits.

> lover limits.

lovers should never be limited!

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by yipinwong » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

Does OpenAI use optimistic UI updates? After you disabled the checkbox, it might have had failed in the backend (and not updated the UI).

Verify with devtools to see if that's the case.

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for me, Youtube "auto-play" irks the me same way, and turning it off did not actually succeed in the backend, thus kept on left as on

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

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Post by ALLTaken » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

sunaurus wrote: post #9

Based on their behavior over the past few years, why would you assume that checkbox even does anything at all?

Levent Alpöge 'additionally' proved OpenAI steals your findings & IP and plays dirty!

Ironically he proved two major findings in Navier Strokes and that unethical American companies violate laws, steal your breakthrough findings & IP and then threaten you if you dare to challenge them.

This is making the status-quo so bad for any of us working on serious capacity. My client's don't trust ChatGPT/Claude anymore and prefer on-premises and OSS models or even custom trained models.