Multiple OpenAI staff have publicly said they cannot do that as accessing specific user settings without their consent (or legal requirement) violates their internal privacy policy.

However, the mathematicians could easily declare whether they had the toggle on or off. Yet curiously, they will not say!

Zero reason to believe open AI employees, big tech has history of employees/subcontractors creeping on exes and minors, someone with keys to creep on customer for valuations is more parsimonious.

It’s not about what they say but what they do and right now no frontier AI company deserves anything but skepticism based on how they act verse what they say.

1. That's a misleading name for "take my secrets",

2. It's on by default,

3. Somebody says there's a second setting "don't train on my data", which is the real setting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639743

The reply from OpenAI should have been "if you had the setting on yes, if not then no".

It was very weird on it's own almost like the setting didn't matter. Or the researcher was being dishonest with what they shared to The Verge

So if the scientist(s) will reports that they had it enabled, it would mean that OpenAI lied, when they made a statement about not using their chats for training, right?:)