Like most of us, I recently got an email from OpenAI, and I couldn’t help but mentally translate some sentences while I was reading it. Here’s how my brain was perceiving things:

  • “Finding friends” — Oh, we are building a social media platform and, along the way, spying a bit on you just like our friends at Meta taught us to do.
  • “Age prediction” — By the way, we need to spy a little more, if that’s okay with you.

After that — for some inexplicable reason — I decided to read part of the new privacy policy, and it gave me goosebumps. Just saying.

I have no doubt OpenAI is not the only one trying to collect as much personal data as possible. Even just thinking about what Google’s and Meta’s AI are already doing with all the personal information they’ve been collecting for so long activates my self-defense mechanism and puts me in denial mode. And no, I don’t believe Apple’s discourse. As for Discord, let’s not even start on that.

Anyway, I just added one more item to my Digital Caveman project. Running a local model is already past due at this point.

2026-02-15 13.53 Updates to OpenAI’s Privacy Policy.png

P.S. I noticed that my name had a typo in the email from OpenAI, and I decided not to fix it. In the future, if a company or someone I’ve never heard of before contacts me with that same typo, I’ll know exactly where the leak came from.