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OpenAI has launched new controls for ChatGPT customers, which give them the choice to show off chat historical past, thereby opting out of offering that dialog historical past as information for coaching AI fashions. Customers can now export chat historical past for native storage as properly. The controls have been rolled out to all ChatGPT customers and might be present in ChatGPT settings. Conversations that begin with the chat historical past disabled won’t be used to coach and enhance the ChatGPT mannequin, nor will they seem within the historical past sidebar. OpenAI will maintain conversations internally for 30 days and assessment them solely when wanted to watch for abuse earlier than deleting them completely. Nonetheless, opting out of offering information to OpenAI for coaching will consequence within the lack of the dialog historical past function. It’s unclear why customers can’t use the dialog historical past whereas concurrently opting out of mannequin coaching.
Earlier, ChatGPT used to maintain observe of conversations and make the most of the dialog information to fine-tune its AI fashions. Nonetheless, any dialog may nonetheless be used for fine-tuning, even whether it is cleared by the consumer periodically. It posed a big privateness difficulty, particularly for delicate information that may be shared by company staff, attorneys, or medical doctors utilizing ChatGPT. A bug in ChatGPT’s dialog historical past in March uncovered some customers’ chat histories to different individuals, which attracted regulatory curiosity in Italy. The brand new privacy-related ChatGPT options are seemingly associated to the decision course of.
Enlarge / A screenshot of ChatGPT settings that reveals the “Chat Historical past & Coaching” possibility.
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OpenAI has additionally launched a brand new “export” possibility in ChatGPT settings to let customers export their ChatGPT information to information that may be saved domestically on a PC. Professionals and enterprises that “want extra management over their information” can go for a brand new “ChatGPT Enterprise” subscription that can routinely choose customers out of mannequin coaching (releasing “within the coming months”).
Enlarge / A screenshot of an electronic mail from OpenAI offering a hyperlink to exported ChatGPT dialog historical past.
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Originally posted 2023-04-26 02:20:47.