Hacker Newsroom for 21 September: ChatGPT Advertising Tracker, Qwen Image Release, AI Model Preservation
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Hacker Newsroom for 21 September: ChatGPT Advertising Tracker, Qwen Image Release, AI Model Preservation

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 20265 min
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Hacker Newsroom for 21 September recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through chatgpt advertising tracker, qwen image release, ai model preservation. 1. ChatGPT Advertising Tracker ChatGPT’s advertising tracker is under scrutiny after an investigative article described a cookie that could connect visits to advertiser websites with a ChatGPT account. The article reports that an identifier created during a ChatGPT session traveled back to OpenAI when advertising code loaded on other sites, and that the code also collected information from forms and page content. Story link Hacker News discussion ...

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Hacker Newsroom, your daily digest of the hot topics in the Hacker News community. Today we're covering ChatGPT, now knows what you do on other websites via Ad Collector, QN Image 2.1, and Pirate Face rescues LLM models from deletion.

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ChatGPT's advertising tracker is under scrutiny after an investigative article described a cookie that could connect visits to advertiser websites with a ChatGPT account. The article reports that an identifier created during a chat GPT session

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traveled back to OpenAI when advertising code loaded on other sites, and that the code also collected information from forms and page content. It raises a consent concern because the observed account linking tokens were associated with permission for analytics.

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