As a valued user of ChatGPT, OpenAI is committed to providing you with greater control over your data and conversations. We have introduced new features that allow you to manage your chat history, turn off conversation logs, and more.
Turn Off Chat History
We are excited to announce that users can now disable their chat history in ChatGPT. This feature allows you to choose which conversations can be used to train our models, ensuring that your personal data is protected.
How it Works
Conversations that are started when chat history is disabled won’t be used to train and improve our models, and won’t appear in the history sidebar. You can find these controls in ChatGPT’s settings and change them at any time.
Benefits of Disabling Chat History
Disabling chat history provides an easier way to manage your data than our existing opt-out process. When chat history is disabled, we will retain new conversations for 30 days and review them only when needed to monitor for abuse, before permanently deleting.
Why We Introduced This Feature
We understand the importance of protecting user data and ensuring that users have control over their personal information. By introducing this feature, we hope to provide an added layer of security and transparency in how we handle your conversations.
What You Can Expect
By disabling chat history, you can rest assured that:
- Your conversations will not be used to train our models.
- Your conversation logs won’t appear in the history sidebar.
- We’ll retain new conversations for 30 days before permanently deleting them.
Accessing Chat History Settings
To access your chat history settings, follow these steps:
- Open ChatGPT and navigate to the settings menu.
- Look for the "Chat History" section and toggle off the switch.
- Confirm that you want to disable chat history.
Introducing the Bug Bounty Program
As we continue to develop safe and advanced AI, we need your help in ensuring our technology is secure, reliable, and trustworthy. Our Bug Bounty Program recognizes and rewards security researchers who contribute to keeping our systems safe.
What is the Bug Bounty Program?
The OpenAI Bug Bounty Program invites you to report vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws you discover in our systems. By sharing your findings, you will play a crucial role in making our technology safer for everyone.
How to Participate
To participate in the Bug Bounty Program:
- Visit our Bug Bounty Program page.
- Review our guidelines and rules.
- Submit your report through the designated portal.
Why We Need Your Help
We believe that powerful AI systems should be subject to rigorous safety evaluations. Regulation is needed to ensure that such practices are adopted, and we actively engage with governments on the best form such regulation could take.
Our Approach to AI Safety
Prior to releasing any new system, we conduct rigorous testing, engage external experts for feedback, work to improve the model’s behavior with techniques like reinforcement learning with human feedback, and build broad safety and monitoring systems.
How We Prioritize Safety
We believe in taking a multi-faceted approach to AI safety. This includes:
- Conducting rigorous testing on new systems.
- Engaging external experts for feedback.
- Improving the model’s behavior through reinforcement learning with human feedback.
- Building broad safety and monitoring systems.
Examples of Our Safety Efforts
For example, after our latest model, GPT-4, finished training, we spent more than 6 months working across the organization to make it safer and more aligned prior to releasing it publicly.
ChatGPT Plugins
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
What Are Plugins?
Plugins are designed to enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT while maintaining its safe and reliable nature. These plugins can:
- Access up-to-date information.
- Run computations.
- Use third-party services.
How We Roll Out Plugins
We are gradually rolling out plugins in ChatGPT so we can study their real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges—all of which we’ll have to get right in order to achieve our mission.
