OpenAI No Longer Relies On API Customer Data To Train ChatGPT 7
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that the company no longer trains its AI large-language models such as GPT with paying customer data. "Customers clearly want us not to train on their data, so we've changed our plans: We will not do that," Altman told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin. From the report: OpenAI's terms of service were quietly updated March 1, records from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine show. "We don't train on any API data at all, we haven't for a while," Altman told CNBC. APIs, or application programming interfaces, are frameworks that allow customers to plug directly into OpenAI's software. OpenAI's business customers, which include Microsoft, Salesforce and Snapchat, are more likely to take advantage of OpenAI's API capabilities.
But OpenAI's new privacy and data protection extends only to customers who use the company's API services. "We may use Content from Services other than our API," the company's updated Terms of Use note. That could include, for example, text that employees enter into the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT. Amazon reportedly recently warned employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT for fear that it might show up in answers.
But OpenAI's new privacy and data protection extends only to customers who use the company's API services. "We may use Content from Services other than our API," the company's updated Terms of Use note. That could include, for example, text that employees enter into the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT. Amazon reportedly recently warned employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT for fear that it might show up in answers.
Re:Oh I see now it's a protection racket (Score:4, Interesting)
Plus they did it for years as a 501(c)(3) (registered charity!) and then handed that data to their shady new "OpenAI LP" s-corp that is worth $30B. It doesn't take a genius to see this is Sam Altman setting up OpenAI to be marketed as the only ethical choice in AI, and to encourage the government to ban and regulate their competitors, now that they all got rich thanks to a lack of regulation. The White House just created an AI committee with Kamala Harris as its head, with a starting budget of $100M, and they already met with Altman and others.
Keep in mind that Google had the memo leak that rightfully pointed out open source is a massive threat to the current AI businesses, as they don't have any "secret formula" that goes into making their models the best. It's just training and engineers coming up with faster ways to train on the data, which FOSS will outcompete them just on sheer volume and interest alone. OpenAI already lost their cashcow DALL-E 2 to Stable Diffusion, and they'll be damned if that's going to happen to ChatGPT 4.
Re: Oh I see now it's a protection racket (Score:3)
Maybe the richer artists can afford it, but that would leave poorer artists in the dust, no?
Of course, this just comes down to the opt-in/opt-out issue regarding data collection. Opt-out is already a burden on users trying to protect their data/privacy from being pawned around like a commodity. Forcing people to pay money for that could set a very unsavory trend for data collection and regulation.
Wow (Score:5)
Guess What (Score:2)
No one wants your shitty techbro shit using their stuff.
Re: (Score:2)
It reminds me of George Constanza's "Was that wrong?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Ummm... (Score:1)