What does this mean for people who were using DDG chat? Does this mean those chats are now searchable as well?
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I think what makes this conversation so frustrating is that OpenAI increasingly operates as an untrustworthy, bad faith actor that has already previously destroyed the illegal datasets they used to train GPT3 when they were sued but they are trying to frame the conversation as if they are protecting users’ privacy.
I definitely encourage people to run OpenAI’s Privacy Policy through an LLM to see what they do with your data, as well as their wiki on how they reneged on being a not-for-profit, threatened to claw back pay from former employees if they ever publicly said something critical, are currently trying to weasel their way out of the Microsoft deal, etc.
I am not one of those stone-aged people who hate AI, but OpenAI is not to be trusted and are objectively the amoral Google of the AI space, second only to Grok which is being retrained to spew far-right antisemitic talking points. OpenAI is cloaking themselves using the guise of privacy to avoid being held accountable, and uncritical journalists/readers are taking the bait, hook line and sinker IMO.
I think that users should trust them to delete private conversations in the same way they ‘trust’ Google not to track you when in Incognito Mode.
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Your duck.ai chats were supposed to be stored for a specific amount of time, and then deleted afterwards. Ideally, OpenAI does not know who is behind the prompts made on DDG.
That goes without saying, your deleted messages are no longer safe from this lawsuit, whether you have used duck.ai years ago or just now. We have no idea how these deleted messages are being recovered and stored for this case’s e-discovery process.
This is the part I don’t understand. If you really want to delete stuff you can. Unless they only did half the job…