{"id":13635,"date":"2025-09-05T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/uncategorized\/cop-gpt-openai-might-report-users-to-the-police\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:55:47","slug":"cop-gpt-openai-might-report-users-to-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/ai-news-2\/cop-gpt-openai-might-report-users-to-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd12 COP-GPT? OpenAI might report users to the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As OpenAI reports, content submitted by ChatGPT users that is deemed dangerous is sent to human reviewers who can decide to notify law enforcement. As the company emphasizes in its <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>, the procedure only applies to &#8220;direct threats to life&#8221;. However, it&#8217;s unclear how the location of users is determined or what specific content might trigger such an intervention.<\/p><p>Cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/people-furious-openai-reporting-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">futurism.com<\/a>, critics point out that this practice is at odds with previous statements by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who promised &#8220;therapist-level privacy&#8221;. Doubts also arise about the risk of abuses, like impersonating others to trigger false interventions.<\/p><p>Dozens of critical reactions have appeared online. &#8220;Ah yes, involve the police. That&#8217;ll surely help,&#8221; muses musician and writer John Darnielle. Researcher Michelle Martin called OpenAI&#8217;s actions a &#8220;surveillance and death machine that recommends even more surveillance to balance out the death.&#8221;<\/p><p>This information about OpenAI&#8217;s activities reflects broader concerns about the AI industry, which many experts believe releases underdeveloped tools, tests them on users, and then resorts to authoritarian corrective measures in case of crisis.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has acknowledged that conversations held in ChatGPT are monitored and in some cases may be shared with the police. The information, published in a blog post, sparked a wave of outrage among users and experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":13505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[813],"tags":[],"popular":[],"difficulty-level":[],"ppma_author":[776],"class_list":["post-13635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news-2"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":776,"user_id":354,"is_guest":0,"slug":"redakcja","display_name":"Redakcja","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Zrzut-ekranu-2025-07-10-o-16.00.36.png","url2x":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Zrzut-ekranu-2025-07-10-o-16.00.36.png"},"first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13635\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"popular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/popular?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"difficulty-level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/difficulty-level?post=13635"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haimagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}