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Important detail to know before commenting: it was Mixpanel analytics apparently that was breached and not ChatGPT itself.
Another reason to have Firefox strict privacy mode turned on along with uBlock and Disconnect though :)
analytics tools often have full access to everything on the page so this might as well be comparable to a breach of chatgpt itself
For sure, yeah. When I joined my current company that provides a web service, I was blown away by how much is recorded. DataDog has a feature called RUM & Session Replay and I don't think people realise that every mouse movement, click, and interaction in general is recorded in enough detail that as a developer I can play back user sessions as if I were watching a screen recording. Mixed with the fact that it also captures as much identifying information as it can, it's pretty fucking creepy
Why is that an important detail? Does itbmakeba functional difference to me as a user? OpenAI collected the data and failed to secure it. Doesn't matter if a 3rd party was involved
It's important because none of OpenAI's software or databases were hacked. What was hacked was a service they use. As much as I dislike it, most companies that have a presence online use analytical services
involved isn't the correct term for this, or rather it's exact opposite direction. The 3rd party was hacked and as a result OpenAI data was leaked (along with any other companies using the platform that were affected)
I bring it up because the nuance is important when I can predict people will jump on OpenAI to make claims of shoddy code. I hate OpenAI and Sam Altman but again, the nuance is important because this can happen to any company
Get mad at the fact analytic companies collect enough data to cause this much of a mess if anything
Good thing I blocked Mixpanel the second I saw it pop up for analytics. Call me paranoid.