Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, Lawsuit Claims
The complaint alleges that they do, relying on a September 14, 2026 404 Media report about an OpenAI program code-named Project Lily. It also quotes an OpenAI Help Center FAQ saying that authorized OpenAI personnel and trusted service providers may access user content for several reasons, including to improve model performance unless the user has opted out. The lawsuit’s claim is that this was never disclosed where consumers would see it.
- ▪The complaint alleges that they do, relying on a September 14, 2026 404 Media report about an OpenAI program code-named Project Lily.
- ▪It also quotes an OpenAI Help Center FAQ saying that authorized OpenAI personnel and trusted service providers may access user content for several reasons, including to improve model performance unless the user has opted out.
- ▪The lawsuit’s claim is that this was never disclosed where consumers would see it.
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| Original publisher | Open Class Actions |
| Canonical URL | https://openclassactions.com/lawsuits/privacy/openai-chatgpt-human-review-project-lily-class-action-lawsuit.php |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:36:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T17:10:26.215Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T17:10:26.215Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | xvCeU9-W8tmq · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Do humans really read ChatGPT conversations? The complaint alleges that they do, relying on a September 14, 2026 404 Media report about an OpenAI program code-named Project Lily. It also quotes an OpenAI Help Center FAQ saying that authorized OpenAI personnel and trusted service providers may access user content for several reasons, including to improve model performance unless the user has opted out. The lawsuit’s claim is that this was never disclosed where consumers would see it. None of the allegations has been proven in court.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Open Class Actions.
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