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Might be one of the most absurd things said on here. Requiring a phone number for sign up does not automatically mean you are selling ads.

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When the time for making money comes, if you don’t think OpenAI will sell every drop of information they have on you, then you are incredibly naive. Why would they leave money on the table when everyone else has been doing it for forever without any adverse effects?

If Google Workspace was selling my or any customers information, at all or "forever", it would not be called Google Workspace, it would be called Google We-died-in-the-most-expensive-lawsuit-of-all-time.

There's a difference. Open AI essentially has 2 products. The chat bot $20 a month thing for Joe shmoe which they admit to training on your prompts, and the API for businesses. Workspace is like the latter. The former is closer to Google search.

Sure, but there is no ambiguity about that, is there? You know that, because they tell you (and, sure, maybe they only tell you, because they have to, by law – but they do and you know)

How do we get from there to "just assume every company in the world will sell your data in wildly and obviously illegal ways", I don't know.

Well..that does seem to be the default. If they don't explicitly say they won't, they probably will. It's a sad world.

They are currently hiring people with Adtech experience.

The most simple version would be an ad-supported ChatGPT experience. Anyone thinking that an internet consumer company with 100m weekly active users (I‘m citing from their job ad) is not going to sell ads is lacking imagination.

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