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0 pointssjwhevvvvvsj2y ago0 comments

Be default they train on user data and cripple the product in various ways if you opt out.

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alwa2y ago

For some time I thought the primary way to opt out was to disable chat history. That made it impossible to use custom instructions. But I later found the account-level opt-out request, which, assuming they respect the weakly-worded “ask us not to train on your data” language, preserves the product’s full set of features:

https://privacy.openai.com/policies

Roark662y ago

There is literally nothing on that page (nor in the linked help article that describes how to export data) that says how to tell them to "not use my data for training" and not loose history at the least. If you know more about this feature please do tell.

swores2y ago

> 'There is literally nothing on that page that says how to tell them to "not use my data for training"...'

You can opt out of ChatGPT using your conversations for future training, without disabling any features like convo history.

Either some browser plug-in like an adblock is hiding the button from you, or you're not noticing and clicking it (I'm guessing the former [1]).

For me, on iPhone, there's a black button with white text "Make a Privacy Request" which sort of hovers bottom centre of the page the way "Chat Live with Support!" buttons often hover.

Click on that button to get to this - https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control - which allows you to either delete your account, or:

"I would like to: Step 1 of 2 Do not train on my content Ask us to stop training on your content"

They then tell you it applies to content going forward, not stuff already done. But that's the opt out that doesn't require losing ChatGPT conversation history.

[1] On iOS Safari with 1Blocker enabled, I could see the button without it being hidden as an annoyance or widget or whatever, however when I tried entering email for opting out to check it still works it gave me an error message that suggested adblock type things might be the issue. I opened the page in Firefox for iOS (so same browser engine as Safari, but without 1Block) and it worked with no error message.

sumedh2y ago

Never knew about this link, I have requested not to train on my data but can we even confirm if they will honor it?

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pests2y ago

Roark66 gave a better answer, but...

On desktop I clicked the link and immediately saw "Make A Privacy Request" top right (where login / account / menu buttons might be)

I must ask did you honestly just miss this UI element or do you think it might be some confirmation bias that you already had?

sjwhevvvvvsjOP2y ago

I also breaks the speak to chat in the app if you turn history off.

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