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While Unlikely, We Cannot Rule It Out

OpenAI could not rule out that two mathematicians’ de-identified data helped improve its models. The standard terms don’t let anyone rule it out.

I’m the Person Who Reads the Terms

Nobody reads the terms. I read the terms. Lately I’ve been redlining my own lawyers’ redlines.

The Model Took You at Your Word

The model checked anyway, then quoted a message I never sent to justify it.

Own the Record Before AI Work Spreads

Your context feels organized enough in a vendor’s memory, right up until the day you want to leave.

Privacy Is Not Protection

We’re still working off an 1890 definition of privacy, and it was never really about hiding.

The Unsolved Search

Real intelligence over truly private data meant crossing four fields that don’t talk to each other, and one episode of Doctor Who.

Pick a Model. Any Model.

The Hardest Part of AI Is Shutting Up

Every Pixel Is a Decision You Made Alone

AI Raises the Floor