The difference between opting in and opting out is huge. I would expect at most 10% of users to opt in.

Well then? If your business model can only exist using data from others, and then you set that up in secret, and don’t tell your users, then there’s clearly something wrong with your business model.

Then you have to deal with the business model so that it complies with the regulations.

Since ChatGPT, there hasn’t been much discussion about where, for example, OpenAI gets this data from. I’m sure they’ve used every (private) forum and website over the years. What we don’t know, and what doesn’t hurt, becomes clear again. As long as you don’t say anything about it, you can get away with it. (Isn’t it filtered well in the AI ​​model?)

Just because someone else does something (wrong), does not give another company the right to do the same thing immediately.

However, as soon as you try to do it “right” you will get caught.

If the report is correct, X will try to do the right thing. no Doing a good job. In fact, they do it completely wrong, for several reasons:

1) They do not announce it publicly, but rather allow it secretly.
2) They don’t give people the option to “subscribe” but set it to “unsubscribe” by default.
3) Since point 1 is unknown to many people, these people will never know about it and thus will never stop it.

So they are doing something very wrong on several levels. Hence these questions from the Environmental Protection Agency (and more broadly from the EU), and possibly an investigation with potential consequences.