ChatGPT Users Can Turn Off Chat Histories Says OpenAI
OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT users can now turn off their chat histories by simply clicking a toggle switch available in their account settings. This new feature allows users to withhold their conversations from being used in training the artificial intelligence models, and the conversations will no longer be saved in ChatGPT’s history sidebar. OpenAI’s AI models will not use this data to improve over time.
The San Francisco-based OpenAI aims to make users feel more comfortable using ChatGPT for all kinds of applications. OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said, “We want to move more in this direction where people who are using our products can decide how their data is being used — if it’s being used for training or not."
Although OpenAI will continue to train its AI models on user data by default, the company will also store data (including that from conversations where users have turned off the chat history) for 30 days before deleting it, to spot abusive behavior. OpenAI stated that its software filters out any personally identifiable information that comes in from users.
OpenAI is planning to launch a business subscription plan soon, which will not train on users’ data by default. The fact is that ChatGPT is underpinned by a large language model that requires massive amounts of data to function and improve. The more data the AI model is trained on, the better it gets at detecting patterns, anticipating what will come next, and generating plausible text. OpenAI fed ChatGPT some 300 billion words systematically scraped from the internet, including personal information obtained without consent.
Scrutiny has grown over how ChatGPT and other chatbots manage hundreds of millions of users’ data, which is commonly used to train or improve AI. With this new feature, OpenAI aims to provide its users with more control over their data and privacy.
