OpenAI gives ChatGPT users the option to turn off chat history
OpenAI gives users the option to turn off their chat history in ChatGPT. Conversations are therefore not used to train OpenAI’s AI models. Chats are permanently deleted from the company’s systems after thirty days.
OpenAI sets the new privacy option available to users from Tuesday. Users can indicate in the ChatGPT settings that their chat history should not be saved. When users do that, their chat conversations are not used to train the AI models that OpenAI creates. Conversations with the chatbot no longer appear in the sidebar of the service.
According to OpenAI, new conversations are retained for up to thirty days if chat history is disabled. According to the company, these conversations are only viewed if it is necessary to check them for abuse. After thirty days, the conversations are permanently deleted. There will also be an option that will allow users to “easier export their ChatGPT data.” Users who do this will receive a file with chat conversations and ‘all other relevant data’ sent to their email address.
OpenAI says it is continuing to work on a ChatGPT Business subscription. That service would be intended for professionals who ‘need more control over their data’, in addition to companies that want to manage their end users. By default, data from ChatGPT Business is not used to train OpenAI’s models. The new subscription should be released ‘in the coming months’.
The new options follow privacy concerns surrounding the service in a number of countries. ChatGPT is currently being investigated in France, Ireland and Germany, among others. Privacy regulators in Europe are therefore investigating whether OpenAI processes user data without appropriate consent, which violates the GDPR. By default, conversations with ChatGPT are used by OpenAI to improve their models.
Italy banned ChatGPT last month. The Italian then said that ChatGPT could become available again in the country if OpenAI gave consumers the option to object to the processing of their data, writes Reuters. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told the news agency that the new privacy options were not introduced as a response to the ban in Italy. The company says it has been working for months to give users more control over data collection.
Source: OpenAI