Abandon ChatGPT: Step by Step
ChatGPT: An In-Depth Look at Its Impact on User Privacy and Security
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re familiar with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the most advanced chatbot the world has ever seen.
And while it is almost impossible not to be fascinated by ChatGPT, there are some glaring issues that need to be addressed; privacy concerns, for example. Is ChatGPT really a privacy risk?
How Does ChatGPT Gather Data?
If you’ve ever interacted with other chatbots, you know that none of them can really compare to ChatGPT, which is actually capable of generating human-like responses. But why is ChatGPT so much better than other similar software?
For one, ChatGPT was fed more than 300 billion words before its launch. And these words weren’t pulled out of thin air, but rather harvested from the internet: from articles, blog posts, social media sites, books, and so on. It is entirely possible that this includes information you shared somewhere, maybe in the form of a Reddit comment, a product review, or something similar. Nobody consented to this, and nobody was compensated in any way.
ChatGPT may be free to use for everyone, but the features are limited, and you have to pay a monthly fee to access the full version. Open AI’s value, meanwhile, skyrocketed as soon as the chatbot hit the market.
Not everyone would consider this unethical, but it is at the very least problematic that a company is able to collect and share such a tremendous amount of data without obtaining anything resembling consent. Plus, even if ChatGPT was only fed publicly available, copyright-free information, that information might be shared with users out of context, or in a way that it is misleading.
Ethical considerations aside, there are serious concerns that Open AI is violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other similar privacy laws. Due to these concerns,Italy officially banned ChatGPT in March 2023, with the country’s data protection authority accusing Open AI of violating user privacy with its data collection practices in more than one way.
- Title: Abandon ChatGPT: Step by Step
- Author: Frank
- Created at : 2024-08-16 15:05:27
- Updated at : 2024-08-17 15:05:27
- Link: https://tech-revival.techidaily.com/abandon-chatgpt-step-by-step/
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