It may be a good time to ask ChatGPT what it “remembers” about you. And look into your options for what it does with that information.
According to OpenAI’s Memory FAQ:
“ChatGPT can now remember useful details between chats …. As you chat with ChatGPT – whether you’re typing, talking, or asking it to generate an image – it will remember helpful context from previous conversations, like your preferences and interests, and use that to tailor its responses.”
The FAQ goes on to say, “If you have the ‘Improve the model for everyone’ setting turned on, we may use content you’ve shared with ChatGPT, including past chats, saved memories, and memories from those chats, to help improve our models.”
The new memory function in ChatGPT seems to qualify as “fine-tuning”: OpenAI will train ChatGPT on your prior queries. They’re not using the term “training” (much), but that’s what it is. The important questions:
Will your memories train the model in general, for 3rd parties’ use?
Or, is this training just limited to your personal use?
The answer seems to be “you can opt out” for B2C, and “nope, not general training” for B2B:
“You can turn this setting off anytime in your Data Controls. As always, we do not train on content from ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu customers by default.”
And,
“You’re in control of what ChatGPT remembers. You can delete individual memories, clear specific or all saved memories, or turn memory off entirely in your settings. If you’d like to have a chat without using or updating memory, use Temporary Chat. Temporary Chats won’t reference memories and won’t create new memories.”
Opt out (or having to remember to delete etc.) isn’t the ideal solution, of course. How many consumers even think about it?
Regardless, it may be illuminating to do this, as suggested by the FAQ:
“To check what ChatGPT remembers, just ask: ‘What do you remember about me?’”
(Caveat: The FAQ has far more detail than we’re attempting to digest here, including that new memory features apparently are not currently available in all jurisdictions, and “Chat history” is only available to certain paid, not free, accounts.)
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