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Re: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

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Post by gojomo »

While I'm eager for people to be able to use leading-edge LLMs without associating their prompts with the real identity, this offering seems untenable.

It's at the mercy of OpenAI to throttle or disable the underlying access.

It's from an unclear team using crummy mealy-mouther likely-ChatGPT-originated copy. So why would anyone trust it?

It casts shade against OpenAI, claiming – contra OpenAI's own assurances about retention – that "ChatGPT may store data related to your queries and responses". But, it only offers the same non-verifiable assurances itself – with even less reputation, or opportunity to hold accountable for violations, than with OpenAI.

Overall, a service like this seems extra-likely to have been offered by sketchy operators, & mostly of unique use to people who want briefly get-away-with-something with regard to OpenAI's preferences.

There may be a place for such a service, but I wouldn't trust it or expect it to be useful for very long.

Re: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

#12

Post by akiselev »

theaiquestion wrote: post #10

I keep seeing projects either like this, or are essentially this with a prompt pre-pended. How/why are you paying for this? The api get's expensive fast.

I’m guessing it’s a play to build up a training and RLHF dataset for another model. A diverse dataset can be hard to put together without opening it up to the public like OpenAI did.

Re: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

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Post by benatkin »

theaiquestion wrote: post #10

I keep seeing projects either like this, or are essentially this with a prompt pre-pended. How/why are you paying for this? The api get's expensive fast.

They seem to be throwing like 5-500 bucks at it. I'm almost never able to get to them by the time I see them but there are always some comments from people who were able to.

Re: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

#14

Post by sebzim4500 »

gojomo wrote: post #11

While I'm eager for people to be able to use leading-edge LLMs without associating their prompts with the real identity, this offering seems untenable. It's at the mercy of OpenAI to throttle or disable the underlying access. It's from an unclear team using crummy mealy-mouther likely-ChatGPT-originated copy. So why would anyone trust it? It casts shade against OpenAI, claiming – contra OpenAI's own assurances about…

>It casts shade against OpenAI, claiming – contra OpenAI's own assurances about retention – that "ChatGPT may store data related to your queries and responses". But, it only offers the same non-verifiable assurances itself – with even less reputation, or opportunity to hold accountable for violations, than with OpenAI.

I think you are confusing the terms of ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. OpenAI are uncharacteristically open about the fact that they are retaining and training on data collected through ChatGPT.

>We do not use Content that you provide to or receive from our API (“API Content”) to develop or improve our Services. We may use Content from Services other than our API (“Non-API Content”) to help develop and improve our Services.

Re: Incognito ChatGPT with no account required

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Post by latexr »

bredren wrote: post #2

This is interesting but all of the site content reads like it was written by AI. It is verbose and doesn’t sound like an actual person. Consider just editing it down by half and reading it out loud to see if it seems like something you would actually write.

> It is verbose and doesn’t sound like an actual person.

It reads like someone trying to trick you. Example from the FAQ:

> Will AnonChatGPT store my questions and responses?

> We understand how important your privacy is to you, which is why we take it very seriously. We want to assure you that we do not store any of the questions you submit, nor any of the responses you receive from ChatGPT. (…)

It drones on for over 100 words. If you’re honest about your intentions, you only need one: “No”. Direct and unambiguous. Otherwise it reads like trying to lie based on some technicality.

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