OpenAI is introducing what one employee calls an “incognito mode” for its hit chatbot ChatGPT that doesn’t save users’ conversation history or use it to improve its artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. .
The San Francisco-based startup also said it plans a “ChatGPT Business” subscription with additional data controls.
The move comes as scrutiny mounts over how ChatGPT and other chatbots manage the data of millions of affected users, typically used to improve, or “train,” AI. There are.
Italy banned ChatGPT last month over potential privacy violations, saying it could restart the service if OpenAI meets demands such as giving users tools to object to the processing of their data. France and Spain have also started investigating the service.
Meera Murthy, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, told JEE News the company was complying with European privacy law and working to reassure regulators.
He said the new features did not stem from Italy’s ChatGPT ban, but from a months-long effort to put users “in the driver’s seat” regarding data collection.
“We’re going to move more and more in this direction of prioritizing user privacy,” Murthy said, with the goal that “it’s completely invisible and the models are interconnected: they do what they do.” are what you want to do”.
User input has helped OpenAI make its software more reliable and reduce political bias, among other issues, he said, but he added that the company now has There are also challenges.
Tuesday’s product release lets users turn off “Chat History and Training” in their settings and export their data.
Nicholas Turley, an OpenAI product officer who likened it to an Internet browser’s incognito mode, said the company will still retain conversations for 30 days to monitor for abuse before permanently deleting them.
Also, the company’s business subscription, available in the coming months, won’t use Conversations to train AI models by default.
Microsoft Corporation, which has invested in OpenAI, already offers ChatGPT to enterprises. Murthy said the service will appeal to existing customers of the cloud provider.
