I believe the API (chat completions) has been private for a while now. ChatGPT (the chat application run by OpenAI on their chat models) has continued to be used for training… I believe this is why it’s such a bargain for consumers. This announcement allows businesses to let employees use ChatGPT with fewer data privacy concerns.
Note that turning 'privacy' on is buried in the UI; turning it off again requires just a single click.
Such dark patterns, plus their involvement in crypto, their shoddy treatment of paying users, their security incidents... make it harder for me to feel good about OpenAI spearheading the introduction of (real) AI into the world today.
> Such dark patterns, plus their involvement in crypto, their shoddy treatment of paying users, their security incidents... make it harder for me to feel good about OpenAI spearheading the introduction of (real) AI into the world today.
Interesting. My opinion is it is a great product that works well for me, I don't find my treatment as a paying user shoddy, and their security incident gives me pause.
> I don't find my treatment as a paying user shoddy
I have never payed for a service with worse uptime in my life than ChatGPT. Why? So that OpenAI could ramp up their user-base of both free and paying users. They knowingly took on far more paying users than they could properly support for months.
There are justifications for the terrible uptime that are perfectly valid, but in the end, a customer-focused company would have issued a refund to the paying customers for the months during which they were shafted by OpenAI prioritizing growth.
That doesn't mean OpenAI isn't terrific in some ways. They're also lousy in others. With so many tech companies, the lousy aspects grow in significance as the years pass. OpenAI, because of all the reasons in my parent comment, is not off to a great start, imo.
That's an important correction. Thanks, I got a bit carried away with the comment. There's enough hearsay on the internet, and I don't want to contribute.
While we're at it, another exaggeration I made is "security incidents"; in fact, I am only aware of one.
If you turn off history and training, you as the user can no longer see your history, and OpenAI won't train with your data. But can customer prompts and company data still be resold to data brokers?
Worse (IMO) than that is the fact that when the privacy mode is turned on, you can't access your previously saved conversations nor will it save anything you do while it's enabled. Really shitty behaviour.
