data-privacy
ChatGPT’s PIN and OpenAI’s New Training Rule Both Have No Way Back
A four-digit PIN now hides a locked ChatGPT conversation from search and from anyone glancing at your screen, and OpenAI is explicit about what happens if that PIN is forgotten: the conversation does not stay locked, it disappears. Not hidden, not pending recovery, gone. A feature built to protect a conversation is also, by its…
The Bill for Moving Fast Comes Itemized
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement this week over books that were never bought. Anthropic trained Claude on a library of pirated titles, and the number attached to that shortcut finally landed, roughly the price of a mid-sized acquisition, paid not for a product but for a corner cut years earlier. It is…