Open AI just announced a series of changes in ChatGPT that aim to improve the control that users have over their information. The movement comes amid rising privacy concerns related to the operation of the model, and a possible breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD).
The chatbot created by the company led by Sam Altman now allows users to turn off chat history. This new feature comes along with another one that may be of interest to the privacy conscious: when history is disabled, chats are not used to train OpenAI AI models, including ChatGPT.
How to turn off ChatGPT conversation history
Starting today, all ChatGPT users can disable chat history. To do so, they simply have to enter the chatbot page, click on its name (in the lower left corner) and choose Settings. Then they should click on Show in section Data Controls. Lastly, touch the switch Chat History & Training.
Once the setting is applied, the chat history will be turned off, but you will keep the conversations in your data centers for 30 days. The company says it will review them only in cases of possible violation of its terms of use. After that time, they promise, they will delete them permanently.
A new button has also been added within Data Controls called export data. As its name indicates, pressing it will provide an email to which “account details and conversations” will be sent.
On the other hand, as we can see, the default settings of ChatGPT are established so that user conversations are used to train the company’s artificial intelligence models. This is may go against the security and privacy practices of some companies (Samsung should have banned it from its factories).
OpenAI has realized this situation and, considering that the application is a source of income, it may lose corporate clients not a good idea. In this sense, they have also announced that they are working on ChatGPT Business, an alternative that will follow the privacy policies of their API, which are stricter.
ChatGPT Business, as expected, will join the paid offer also integrated by ChatGPT Plus. In addition to the improvements at the level of privacy, it will come with tools so that companies can manage access to their users. Of course, we have to wait a few months to know its release date and price.
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