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highplainsdem

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6. OpenAI might have data on you from whatever they've scraped from the internet, data to train their AI,

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #5)

Thu May 14, 2026, 06:39 PM

22 hrs ago

but the type of info the article is about is from OpenAI users communicating with their AI tools, using them, including chatting with the chatbot. Which is linked to an OpenAI user ID and the email the user registered with. That data is particularly valuable to advertisers.

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