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How to Tell the Chat GPT: Privacy Please!

a privacy sign hanging from a door knob

 

To opt out of using your data to train Chat GPT:

Go to Settings

image of settings location

Click on Data Controls

image of settings menu

Click on “Improve the model for everyone” and set it to off.

Image of the prompt that asks you if you really want to not help the model train.

ALTERNATIVELY:

You can go to this website, and click on the button in the upper right that says “Make a Privacy Request”

Note that Enterprise ChatGPT has privacy enabled by default.

“You can access the privacy portal for ChatGPT services by visiting OpenAI’s Privacy Policy page. This page provides information on how your data is handled, including collection, usage, and your rights regarding your information. If you’re looking for specific privacy settings or options to manage your data, they are generally outlined in the policy itself or via account settings within the OpenAI platform.”

 

image of the options inside the privacy portal.

Here you can also Request a copy of the data, delete your account and make a ChatGPT Personal Data Removal requests.

You should absolutely avail yourself of these settings if you are using this for work where you are loading up sensitive information. We work with FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) data, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) data and research data here at the university and need to be careful.

 

Services for businesses, such as ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and our API Platform

“By default, we do not train on any inputs or outputs from our products for business users, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and the API. We offer API customers a way to opt-in to share data with us, such as by providing feedback in the Playground, which we then use to improve our models. Unless they explicitly opt-in, organizations are opted out of data-sharing by default.

Please see our Enterprise Privacy page for information on how we handle business data.”