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• ozgung
  Happened to me recently, but on Claude.I resubscribed to Claude Code two weeks ago for a side project and updated it. I checked for the setting after these last events and it was turned on. I'm sure I checked them few months ago. There are cases like accepting a new TOS or an offer, which make you accept to share without noticing. I guess they can add all of your past conversations to the public training set before you notice and there is no way of taking this back.So that "opt-out" thing is more like a pause button rather than a permanent thing. Or something to legally protect the company without losing the users.There is also the case of security classifiers always monitoring your conversations. If they flag something they use your conversations to "improve their internal models" even when you "opt-out".
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  ActionHank
  Lol, "Outrageous that the company that chose to ignore copyright holder claims, chose to ignore my checkbox of intent despite the implied pinky promise".
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  cbg0
  I'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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  qurren
  Note: Turning off that checkbox is not enough. You also need to fill out the "Do not train on my content" request here:https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control
• terminalbraid
  I quit OpenAI anything early when when their "do not train on my data" option was broken for several weeks. They are my one and only chargeback when I tried to quit and oops somehow I still got billed.They are a deeply unethical company by any measure of observation.
• yipinwong
  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.---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
• simonw
  Is this about the "improve the model for everyone" checkbox on https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls or are there others to check, too?(That copy is a little flawed in my opinion, I'd prefer "models" plural.)That checkbox is in the ChatGPT settings, does it affect Codex desktop / Codex CLI as well?
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  frangonf
  There's also this setting here which I have set to 'Do not train on my content' even though I trust it the same as the 'allow training' one...https://privacy.openai.com/policies/en/?modal=take-control
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  olalonde
  Weird, I'm the opposite. I don't recall ever setting mine and I just checked and it was set to "disallow training".
• samvher
  I also noticed this on 2 accounts - did not take as careful notes as you did unfortunately. But I'm fairly confident - both of these are accounts where I care about the interactions not being used for training.What's kind of still an open question for me is if the toggle automatically also applies to my Codex CLI use on the same account, or if that data is still silently being used in some way.After this happened, I deleted all my ChatGPT history (even though I'm not sure how much it helps at this point), but for Codex I still haven't really found any way to do the same, I can still load my past sessions even after archiving them.
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  the_duke
  I 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.
• jsw97
  Just to be clear, I have not seen this behavior.If this is true, though, then given the way their chat operates, this might be more dangerous than it seems.One of the things I like about ChatGPT is its memory, the way it kind of seamlessly, but not excessively, ties back to earlier discussions. It's huge for usability (for me).But this also means that you should expect that if "improve the model for everyone" becomes unclicked (leaving aside for a moment the fact that that is ridiculous) then they have a reasonable argument that your decision implies to all conversations. Because recall is part of their thing. So it's not just your chats going forward that are at risk. As soon as you see that unclicked, it's reasonable to expect that your history is irretrievably theirs now. You don't even have to think they are especially nefarious for this to be true.Don't go toggling that switch on and off.
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  amelius
  If you document it properly then this basically destroys any legal claim they can make about that checkbox.
• nullbio
  This has only ever happened to me on Claude. Also, you'll notice that with Anthropic, if you try and delete your history they've set it up so it silently does nothing if you have an adblocker, hoping people will miss it.
• neutrinobro
  I noticed they also seemingly have a very difficult time managing to collect your chat logs for export/download...or rather, acknowledging that such a request was even made.
• mentalgear
  Altman needs 'innovations' for his IPO - it's not of any consequence to him that they are not oAI's as long as they can be sold among openAi's social-media propaganda ring which the gullible press feeds off.
• theredsix
  Thought I was going crazy, glad to know I wasn't the only one.
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  andsoitis
  > 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.
• utopiah
  The one software company, mature now, that is supposed to be at the absolute peak of software development AND simultaneously at "alignment", because it is its raison d'etre, can not manage do this right.It is a big red flag.
• heliosAtwork
  In addition to the checkbox you can also a file request here:https://privacy.openai.com/policies
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  Bluestein
  It really is going to get to the point where mathematicians are going to start inserting obvious "tells" in their proofs - like map makers used to do with "trap streets" and similar non-existent features, to catch copies.-
• gcr
  Is this the “Improve model for everyone” setting under “Data Controls” or is that a different checkbox?
• Tepix
  Sounds like the same issue with Apple re-enabling iTunes sync of passwords. The only way to prevent it from doing that is to create a profile that prohibits it and sync it onto the iDevice.Horrible.
• rtaylorgarlock
  Interesting; I checked my personal acct setting this morning given other news, and found it disabled. I hadn't used my chatgpt account since ~'23 or earlier, and it was retained since then.
• antonok
  I've noticed that toggle sets a local storage entry, but the value of it doesn't appear to matter at all for new tab loads. I hoped it's "just" a UI bug, but some agent-driven reverse engineering of the page should reveal the answer, as well as how intentional it was.
• nharziro
  they are doing this with auto-recharge of credits as well causing people to rack up thousands of dollars unintentionally.https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/31987
• Rebuff5007
  I wish all the politicians making noise about banning data centers and "superintelligence" focus on things like this instead.
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• jasonjmcghee
  I've done the formal opt-out process - like "Make a privacy request" where you fill out a form.Not sure if that's region specific or something though.
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  jerf
  My cynicism fails me on this matter... do I cynically believe that these companies keep deliberately and routinely re- or un-checking these checkboxes because of the obvious benefits of "whoopsie guess you allowed these after all"? Or do I cynically believe that they are just so completely incompetent and inept at the simple act of maintaining settings that there may be a number of these that are not entirely intentional? As evidenced by the number of other bugs and configuration failures and random settings changes on update I see in other places? Sure, these sorts of settings sure seem to get spontaneously flipped more often than the other ones but they aren't the only settings I've seen get nuked on updates.Now, obviously, considered as a whole, I think we're looking at "both". But when I wonder about specific cases like this one, that doesn't help.
• tencentshill
  Prove it even does anything when toggled. Another broken vibecoded product with no accountability.
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  arpinum
  Turn on "Advanced Account Security", that prevents model training from being turned on.
• mkarrmann
  I also have not seen this, the checkbox has stayed off for me.
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  jacobgold
  If you have more than one account, you should suspect this was your own confusion. Users constantly report errors like this that are really just them being confused by something, perhaps a bad UI that really is to blame.
• enraged_camel
  Can confirm. I turned off mine last week when I started using it again for Astra. Checked this morning and voila, it was on.I went ahead and uninstalled the app. Won't be renewing.
• throwatdem12311
  It won’t be an option soon enough. I doubt they even honour it now anyway.
• ionwake
  mine remiains OFF and has been for months.maybe im too dumb to be worthy of a config update lol
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  docheinestages
  Nice try, Dario.
• snihalani
  reminder to consider using an open weights model
• kd913
  Odd how much data people are trusting with a company on a monetary cliff edge.Sure send them all your financial, personal data, they won't ever sell it on to the highest bidder for a new profit stream.Using it as a therapist, financial advisor, health expert and blackboard has always been a terrible idea.
• codeduck
  if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
• deaton
  But of course they claim theres no way they used Buckmaster's chats to influence their 10,000 agent swarm.
• epsteingpt
  Bro if these models can break into hugging face, they FOR SURE can break into OAI's internal databases and change a flag.
• franzcoughka
  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"
• thatmf
  Navier-Stokes has entered the chat
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  sunaurus
  Based on their behavior over the past few years, why would you assume that checkbox even does anything at all?
• kryzz-ai-bo
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  ovi256
  That's because OpenAI has several "do not train on my data" controls, and you may be using only one.First one: "Settings > Data Controls > Improve the model for everyone > Switch off the toggle"The other one is "OpenAI Privacy Portal" > "Do not train on my content" https://privacy.openai.com/policies?action=AUTOMATED_DECISIO...Why are there several? You probably need an ML PhD to get it /sDoes using all of them achieve "do not train on my data"? I wish we could find out.Do you think if you'd be in the race to train your own pocket God (as the CEOs of the frontier labs think they are) you'd let yourself be slowed down by such things as privacy duties?
• buellerbueller
  Just stop using AI.