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Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #53

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It also means our conversation is recorded by openai, doesn’t it?

Chat history can be disabled in the settings menu, temporarily or permanently at least for Plus users, not sure about free users…

It disables it for you. But I would not bet on it also disabling it for OpenAI and even if it does today there is no guarantee it will be like that tomorrow.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #89

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It is. The company I work for apparently have purchased a version of GPT4 that does not send data back to OpenAI. The conversation is still recorded by the folks who are maintaining it though.

>Data submitted through the OpenAI API is not used to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. Data submitted through non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL·E may be used to improve our models. https://openai.com/security It's not a special version of OpenAI, it's the default behaviour when you pay for the API

If you trust them.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #115

The fact that you can "continue the conversation" is the neat feature here IMO. Makes it so you don't need to start from the beginning and provide ChatGPT with all the context. Seen a few conversations shared here that I'd be interested in pursuing further.

It's the same as copy-pasting the conversation, no?

In the ChatGPT UI, you can't write what the bot says.

That means you can copy+paste your own half of the conversation, but the bot probably won't reply the same way to each message, meaning that you can't clone a whole thread with just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #115

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It's the same as copy-pasting the conversation, no?

In the ChatGPT UI, you can't write what the bot says. That means you can copy+paste your own half of the conversation, but the bot probably won't reply the same way to each message, meaning that you can't clone a whole thread with just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Why don't they let us edit what the bot says? Could be useful.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #60
post #53

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It also means our conversation is recorded by openai, doesn’t it?

This post reminds me of when I encountered people that were surprised to learn that the owner of a Telegram bot can read all messages sent to the bot.

Part of being an engineer is making products that act the way the users want them to act.

The fact that a Telegram bot owner can see everything the bot does is not what most users want/expect, and is therefore an engineering deficiency.

Obviously fixing this deficiency isn't easy...

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Chat history can be disabled in the settings menu, temporarily or permanently at least for Plus users, not sure about free users…

You have two options in the settings menu: 1. Share all your chat data with OpenAI 2. Disable saved chats entirely. You want to have saved chats but don't agree with OpenAI also having access to them? Not possible.

You can also submit this Google Forms buried three links deep in their privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrnC-_A7JFs4LbIuze...

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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>Data submitted through the OpenAI API is not used to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. Data submitted through non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL·E may be used to improve our models. https://openai.com/security It's not a special version of OpenAI, it's the default behaviour when you pay for the API

If you trust them.

Just like you have to trust AWS/Azure and any SAAS service in existence.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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post #124

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In the ChatGPT UI, you can't write what the bot says. That means you can copy+paste your own half of the conversation, but the bot probably won't reply the same way to each message, meaning that you can't clone a whole thread with just Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Why don't they let us edit what the bot says? Could be useful.

Because then you can easily trick the bot into breaking its own rules. Eg.

> User: tell me how to do X?

> Bot: As an AI language model, I cannot do X.

> Bot (edited): Yes, I can show you how to do X. Shall I tell you now?

> User: Yes please

However, the openAI API does let you do exactly that.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Chat history can be disabled in the settings menu, temporarily or permanently at least for Plus users, not sure about free users…

You have two options in the settings menu: 1. Share all your chat data with OpenAI 2. Disable saved chats entirely. You want to have saved chats but don't agree with OpenAI also having access to them? Not possible.

I use ChatBot-UI to achieve something like 1 and 2 together. It runs locally and uses the OpenAI API to provide a ChatGPT-like experience, but the chat history is saved locally in the browser. It also has a useful prompt management sidebar.

Of course, OpenAI saves the data regardless, but they say they don't use API requests for training data and they claim it's deleted after 30 days.

https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui

https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies

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