This ChatGPT update fixed one of my biggest productivity issues with the AI chatbot

Generative AI fashions equivalent to ChatGPT leverage consumer inputs to enhance their fashions additional and get smarter. Beginning April 2023, in case you needed to decide out of ChatGPT utilizing your knowledge to coach its fashions, you’d must sacrifice entry to your chat historical past — till now. 

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced it is updating its knowledge controls for ChatGPT free and Plus customers, permitting them to view their chat historical past even when they’ve opted out of coaching for mannequin enchancment. 

This improve is an enormous workflow win for customers who prioritize privateness as a result of they’ll nonetheless take pleasure in the advantages of getting a chat historical past, equivalent to having the ability to revisit earlier conversations, proceed chatting, or use it as inspiration for different chats, whereas having the peace of thoughts that their inputs won’t be used to coach the mannequin additional. 

For instance, on a number of events, I misplaced entry to unique recipes I had ChatGPT generate based mostly on random elements in my fridge, which I’d have liked to recreate later. Now, I not have to fret about dropping helpful data to the abyss for the sake of defending my knowledge.

OpenAI shares the function is out there on the internet model now and will probably be accessible on cell quickly. Customers’ earlier decisions for mannequin enchancment will probably be stored as they had been; nevertheless, customers can change that alternative by visiting Settings > Knowledge Controls > Mannequin Enchancment and toggling it on or off. 

OpenAI additionally launched one other function referred to as Short-term Chat for customers who would nonetheless want to not have their chats saved to their chat historical past even when the mannequin enchancment is turned off.

Much like looking in incognito mode, with Short-term Chat customers can have one-off conversations that will not seem of their chat historical past or be used to coach the fashions additional. To begin a Short-term Chat, customers click on on the dropdown on the high proper nook the place it reads “ChatGPT” and examine the Short-term Chat choice. 

This replace follows OpenAI’s growth of the ‘Reminiscence’ function to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers on Monday, which makes it doable for ChatGPT to recollect any user-supplied insights or data that might show helpful when formulating future solutions.