OpenAI’s new ChatGPT privacy tool lets creators hide their work from the AI

OpenAI has been in hot water regarding data privacy ever since ChatGPT was first released to the public. The company used a lot of data ...The post OpenAI’s new ChatGPT privacy tool lets creators hide their work from the AI appeared first on BGR.

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OpenAI has been in hot water regarding data privacy ever since was first released to the public. The company used a lot of data from the public internet to train the large language model powering ChatGPT and other AI products. But that seems to have included copyrighted content.

Some creators went ahead and sued , and several governments have opened investigations. Basic privacy protections, like opting out of training the AI with your data, were lacking for regular users, too. It took pressure from regulators for OpenAI to add privacy settings that let you remove your content so that it won’t be used to train ChatGPT.



Going forward, OpenAI plans to deploy a new tool called Media Manager that will let creators opt out of training ChatGPT and other models that power OpenAI products. The feature might have been introduced much later than some people expected, but it’s still a useful privacy upgrade. OpenAI published on Tuesday detailing the new privacy tool, and explaining how it trains ChatGPT and other AI products.

Media Manager will let creators identify their content to tell OpenAI they want it excluded from machine learning research and training. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the and have reviewed the Now, the bad news: the tool isn’t available yet.

It will be ready by 2025, and OpenAI says it plans to introduce additional choices and features as it continues developing it. The company also hopes it wi.