OpenAI is letting people opt to\u00a0withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company\u2019s models.<\/p>\n
The move could be a\u00a0privacy safeguard for people who sometimes share\u00a0sensitive information<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with the popular AI chatbot.<\/p>\n The startup said Tuesday that\u00a0ChatGPT<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0users can now turn off their chat histories by clicking a toggle switch in their account settings.<\/p>\n When people do this, their conversations will no longer be saved in ChatGPT\u2019s history sidebar (located\u00a0on the left side of the webpage), and OpenAI\u2019s models won\u2019t use that data to improve over time.<\/p>\n OpenAI is aiming to make people\u00a0feel more comfortable using the chatbot for all kinds of applications. For example, during a demo of the feature on Monday, the company used the example of planning a surprise birthday party.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to move more in this direction where people who are using our products can decide how their data is being used \u2014\u00a0if it\u2019s being used for training or not,\u201d OpenAI Chief Technology Officer\u00a0Mira Murati\u00a0said.<\/p>\n In the months since ChatGPT was launched publicly, millions of people have experimented with it and other bots (such as Bard, created by Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google).<\/p>\n This new wave of AI chatbots is already being harnessed for everything from helping plan vacations to acting as an\u00a0impromptu therapist<\/a><\/strong>, raising questions not just about how these systems can\u00a0be used but also how the companies\u00a0process the prompts people type into them.<\/p>\n OpenAI said that its\u00a0software filters out personally identifiable information that comes in from users.<\/p>\n The San Francisco-based startup, which announced the changes in a blog post Tuesday, will continue to train its models on user data by default.<\/p>\n It will still store\u00a0data (including that from conversations where users have turned off the chat history) for 30 days before deleting it, which it does to spot abusive behavior, the company said.<\/p>\n This month, OpenAI also said it\u2019s allowing users to email themselves a downloadable copy of the data they\u2019ve produced while using ChatGPT, which includes conversations with the chatbot.<\/p>\n The company is planning to roll out a business subscription plan in the coming months that it said will not train on those users\u2019 data by default.<\/p>\n OpenAI is letting people opt to\u00a0withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company\u2019s models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":479605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,83065,84211,45266,437],"class_list":["post-489129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-language-models","tag-openai","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Stability AI launches open-source ChatGPT rival<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"