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Post by joshspankit »

londons_explore wrote: post #125
GaggiX wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

If users want something functionally impossible then that’s an education thing not a product thing.

I fully expect that when I send text to a service that the provider can read all of it. Like of course they can, they have to process it.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Post by joshspankit »

ChatGTP wrote: post #105
GaggiX wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not really, the chats could be stored locally in session data.

I’m confused. The AI does not process input in-browser.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Post by Turing_Machine »

jacquesm wrote: post #143
swexbe wrote: post #127

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

I don't.

How about the people who made your keyboard? Do you trust them? If not, what do you do about it?

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Post by Terretta »

ChatGTP wrote: post #105
GaggiX wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not really, the chats could be stored locally in session data.

You're incongruously confused about this for your username.

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Post by esperent »

Veen wrote: post #130
esperent wrote: post #114

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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/…

I've been waiting for GPT-4 API access for several weeks now. As soon as I get it I'll try something like this but who knows how long that will be.

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Post by flangola7 »

jacquesm wrote: post #121
maxbaines wrote: post #110

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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…

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.

It is deleted after 30 days, the same as their API

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Post by flangola7 »

sealeck wrote: post #71
Dr-NULL wrote: post #63

Wondering what happens if someone shares a chat and then clears all chat history or maybe delete the account? Does the shared chat still accessible?

That would defeat the purpose of "clear chat history" or "delete".

The shared chats are still available

Re: ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly

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Post by flangola7 »

Sai_ wrote: post #103
qwertox wrote: post #82

Well done! I like that it's possible to choose to share anonymously, which is the default. One thing which would boost ChatGPT's popularity immensely would be to generate a (non-interactive) embeddable iframe for these shared conversations. Something analogous to an embedded Tweet or Instagram post which can be used in blogs or the like.

Where do you see embeddable chats being valuable? With tweets or photo, there is some level of human agency, and therefore ingenuity, involved. Here it’s just prompt engineering.

Human ingenuity is on its way out
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