You Can Stop Learning ChatGPT With Your Questions and Dialogues
Every time you interact with ChatGPT you are actually training it to get better. It takes your conversations and uses that experience to make future conversations more useful and accurate for everyone. This is good for both ChatGPT and anyone who wants their chats with a bot to improve over time. Until AI takes over the world, this seems normal to me.
Of course, it also has a downside: it’s a bit privacy-aggressive. OpenAI takes everything you ask from ChatGPT for its own purposes, which, while not necessarily nefarious, can feel a bit creepy if you don’t want the company to use your conversations as fodder for their big language model. (Though it’s funny to imagine that I improved ChatGPT by asking him to write me a horror story about a killer clove of garlic .)
While OpenAI wants as much training data as possible for its AI system, it seems happy to compromise in the name of user privacy, as evidenced by the company’s latest change: OpenAI announced on Wednesday that users can now turn off their stories. chats in ChatGPT, which, accordingly, also disables learning. When you disable chat history in ChatGPT, no new chats will be saved to your dashboard, although the company will keep these chats for 30 days to track abuse. After that, these chats will be permanently deleted.
It’s good that OpenAI is adding more options for users to control their privacy: the company suffered a data breach last month that exposed some users’ names, email addresses, home address and credit card information (last four digits and expiration date) . Empowering users to take their personal data into their own hands will make ChatGPT and OpenAI a safer place.
How to disable chat history and learning in ChatGPT
To disable chat history and ChatGPT training, open ChatGPT in a new browser window. Click your account email address in the lower left corner of the screen, then select Settings. Click Show next to Data Controls , then click the toggle next to Chat History and Learning.
Of course, the big downside of disabling this feature is the loss of the built-in conversation archive that OpenAI automatically catalogs for you. If you like to review your ChatGPT chats, you need to copy and paste them somewhere else before you close the window. If that’s too hard, it might be worth sacrificing privacy so that your chats don’t count towards ChatGPT training. After all, it would be great to tell the next generation that you played a small part in the robot uprising.
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