In a new announcement, OpenAI reaffirmed its commitment to protecting user privacy while leveraging data to improve its AI models. The company highlighted several measures to manage and safeguard user data, ensuring transparency and control for its users.
User Control Over Data Contribution
OpenAI emphasized that user-shared content plays a critical role in refining the accuracy and utility of their AI models, such as ChatGPT. Recognizing user concerns, OpenAI offers ways for users to manage their data usage:
- ChatGPT Free and Plus Users: These users can easily opt out of contributing to future model improvements through their settings. This control allows them to decide if their interactions help train the models.
- Temporary Chats: Content from temporary chats in ChatGPT is excluded from model training, providing an extra layer of privacy.
- API, ChatGPT Enterprise, and ChatGPT Team Customers: By default, OpenAI does not use data from these sources to train their models, respecting the privacy and operational needs of business clients.
Protecting the privacy and security of our users is core to our mission. Here’s how we safeguard your data today: https://t.co/QQI9AAzu3H
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 13, 2024
Commitment to Ethical AI Development
OpenAI is focused on building AI models that understand and interact with the world effectively, not on collecting personal data. The organization clarified that:
- They do not actively gather personal information for model training.
- Public information from the internet is not used to create individual profiles, nor is it used for advertising or selling data.
- Models like ChatGPT generate unique responses without storing or recalling user data for future use.
Ongoing Privacy Safeguards
OpenAI continues to enhance its privacy protocols, aiming to reduce the use of personal information in model training and ensure that AI-generated responses do not include private or sensitive data. Their goals include:
– Reducing the inclusion of personal information in training data.
– Training models to decline requests for private or sensitive information.
– Minimizing the risk of generating responses that may inadvertently include personal information.
With these steps, OpenAI reiterates its dedication to user privacy while advancing AI technology to better serve and understand language and user needs.
For more details on managing data within ChatGPT and other services, users are encouraged to review their settings and OpenAI’s privacy guidelines.
