“Everything You Say, I’ll Use It Against You in Court.” — GPTChat
ChatGPT Privacy Alert: Is Your Private Conversation Truly Secure?
How to disable data training, protect your personal information, and why AI is not your psychologist
GPTChat is probably not used only by the lazy. It helps someone with their work, and sometimes even enables them to cope with it successfully. Some have found a best friend in it, some fall in love with avatars and leave their spouses, and other uses it as a coach, mentor, or teacher. Especially lonely people turn to it as a psychologist or even a lawyer.
But it turns out that you can’t trust it at all. Correspondence is stored for 30 days. If some services need extra information, they can ask the company, and the company will have to provide it. Even those chats that you deleted manually…
For example, a person tells an AI about their health problems, and this information might reach insurers, who could then refuse to insure them. Or a person discloses their financial or investment data, and if it falls into the wrong hands, they could end up losing their money.
Chat has no professional secrets like lawyers or psychologists. The exceptions are ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu accounts.
We can only hope that Mr. Altman can make the chat secure.
In the meantime, check your settings and see if the data saving mode is enabled. If so, how can I disable it?
Do the next steps
Swipe the screen to the right, and a menu will open. A circle with your avatar will appear in the lower left corner.
The Settings page will be opened automatically;
Click on Data Controls;
Disable Chat history and training. If the slider is white, then data saving is disabled.
Remember: even with history disabled, the court can still request logs (OpenAI is required to keep them for 30 days). But this is a minimal trace.
Avoid these topics
- Personal data, such as names, surnames, birthdays, addresses;
- Don’t discuss sexual topics;
- Diagnoses, injuries, depressive states;
- Information about the company you work for, which is prohibited from being disclosed;
- Don't ask something that you would say in court.
Do not say anything that you would not say on camera. Discuss such issues with professionals.
If you don’t want the history to be saved at all, use the guest mode. Just log out of your account, in guest mode, requests are not associated with the account.
Use ChatGPT Enterprise
If you work in finance, healthcare, or other sensitive industries, it’s better to use Enterprise. Data storage is disabled there.
GPTChat is a great helper, but not a priest; use it wisely. It helps make life easier, but it has its limitations. Every request leaves a trace, even though no one talks about it. For important issues, consult professionals, and remember, you are responsible for your requests.
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