They are a deeply unethical company by any measure of observation.
Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
And don't switch to Misanthropic lol. They are even worst...
> Misanthropic lol. This approach of misnaming a company to try make a point is childish and, frankly, perplexing to me. > They are even worst Learn to write proper English.
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#53I've disabled the checkbox many months ago and it's still disabled today. EU citizen, not sure if that's relevant.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it’s a tradeoff. What do you prefer? To go with the service provider known to be shady but gives you lots of free stuff or the one that might be less shady and gives you less free stuff?
Anthropic is shady too my guy. Claude Code will frequently re-ask you to turn on data sharing even after you've said no, it's dark patterned like a task approval, and once you turn it on it's harder to turn off than OAI makes it.
I do think it ended up being after a power outage though and it was some kind of config corruption.
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#55Based on their behavior over the past few years, why would you assume that checkbox even does anything at all?
While that is true, you also have no reason to assume OP is being truthful or correct here given that they have shown 0 proof of what they're saying. Yes, you can then pile on "OF COURSE ITS OPENAI LOL YOU THINK THEY CARE ABOUT PRIVACY LOL" but where have we established OP's premise is even correct? Can anyone else also report this? So is it just OpenAI specifically messing with OP?
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#56Weird, I'm the opposite. I don't recall ever setting mine and I just checked and it was set to "disallow training".
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#57I disabled it once, it has always stayed disabled. So it may or may not happen regularly, but I would not over-index on a sample size of one.
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#58Re: Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
#59Based on their behavior over the past few years, why would you assume that checkbox even does anything at all?
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#60I've disabled the checkbox many months ago and it's still disabled today. EU citizen, not sure if that's relevant.