No surprise really, that was always part of the deal. Google and Meta are relatively good buyers, if you consider that our data is also being sold to dark companies we've never heard of, or are difficult to trace back to their owners, or have hazy political involvement etc... Tech companies big or small will sell our data to whomever pays - see terms and conditions or whatever.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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OpenAI, selling its users out while still not making a profit 🤣.
They had most perfect business plan, buy hardware at massively inflated prices in order to provide a service that they sell for a loss to a customer base that doesn't exist.
How did that not work out for them?
"Accused of"?
That's how this stuff works. That's its purpose. Google is a data broker, as is most of Big Tech.
I would have thought the personal data would flow in the opposite direction tbh
It flows in all directions
Much like the rancid toilet bowl it is.
was it you who was doing the inappropriate bathroom wall art?
In most restrooms, I make a conscious effort to avoid touching every surface.
That's probably good. I've been in most bathrooms. Those bowls are not safe to eat out of
Lol. Your mom is accused of handing over your intimate personal information to your dad and grandma.
Day drinking?
If that's how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that's how they learn.
I'm not surprised there are stupid and gullible people in the world. But, I am scared about how many there seem to be, now. Also, I was just reading /r/teachers wherein a teacher told a story about a 15-year-old who didn't understand how Leonardo DiCaprio could be in Romeo and Juliette because the play was written 500 years ago. Just clueless. If you want to remain optimistic about our future, do NOT read /r/teachers.
If that's how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that's how they learn.
Let's not engage in blaming the victims.
There's no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.
I'm sorry, but what?
If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?
Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?
If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?
Because I'm paying for something?
Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?
I don't know, it's probably circumstantial.
Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It's entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.
If it's public, it's a given that Facebook and Google has all of that on you already.
It's almost a decade since Zucc said in front of congress that they do shadow profiles, LLMs are not going to change that.
What I do worry about is all personal stuff people overshare to the LLMs. From health, mental to financial and other secrets.