OpenAI will let you turn off your chat history in ChatGPT

OpenAI now offers you the choice to modify off your chat historical past when utilizing its ChatGPT chatbot. As defined in a weblog publish, OpenAI says it gained’t save your earlier conversations while you flip this setting off, nor will it use these conversations to assist prepare its AI fashions.

The corporate will nonetheless retailer new ChatGPT conversations for as much as 30 days to “monitor for abuse” earlier than it completely deletes them, nonetheless. It additionally notes that the settings gained’t apply to any present conversations you had with chat historical past turned on, which implies OpenAI should still use them for mannequin coaching.

You possibly can regulate your information settings by logging in to your ChatGPT account after which choosing the three dots subsequent to your electronic mail tackle within the bottom-left nook of the display screen. From right here, click on Settings > Present and toggle off the Chat Historical past & Coaching setting to show off dialog historical past. You can too choose the brand new Export information choice to obtain a downloadable file containing your info collected by ChatGPT.

When you’ve disabled your chat historical past, you’ll discover that none of your new conversations save to your historical past bar on the left aspect of the display screen. You possibly can rapidly flip the choice again on once more by hitting the inexperienced Allow chat historical past button that seems within the column.

Moreover, OpenAI is introducing a technique to protect chat historical past whereas nonetheless opting out of its use as coaching information — nevertheless it’s just for subscribers of its new ChatGPT Marketing strategy. The subscription, which is anticipated to reach in “the approaching months” is designed for firms that use ChatGPT and doesn’t share conversations with OpenAI by default.