If you are using default ChatGPT settings your personal and sensitive information is at risk. Stop using ChatGPT until you take these 6 steps to protect yourself.
What are the privacy pros/cons of using ChatGPT without making an account? For example, if you aren’t logged in, what is it doing with the information and do users have the option to exempt entries from training?
This is interesting. I never really looked at privacy settings for ChatGPT. I use AI a lot at my day job and for my own research. I don't want to delete all of my projects, so I'm wondering if I should have a second account with different settings. Also, I've messed with AI installed locally, but I'm not that impressed with it yet (although I don't have the budget for the processing power for larger models).
You don't have to necessarily delete all of your projects, just make sure you do the opt-out through openai's privacy portal to make sure your data isn't used for training models
I don’t have a specific AI recommendation, but from a privacy and security perspective, I would say that you most certainly shouldn’t use Deepseek, since it’s a China-based company, in my opinion (or any company in a questionable jurisdiction). And any AI-tool that doesn’t allow you privacy options and the ability to opt-out from training data is probably worth avoiding.
This is such great information. May I please share the tips with my work team on our web site with credit to your Substack? I am a subscriber and will not share if you say “nay!” Thank you, Tate!!
What are the privacy pros/cons of using ChatGPT without making an account? For example, if you aren’t logged in, what is it doing with the information and do users have the option to exempt entries from training?
This is interesting. I never really looked at privacy settings for ChatGPT. I use AI a lot at my day job and for my own research. I don't want to delete all of my projects, so I'm wondering if I should have a second account with different settings. Also, I've messed with AI installed locally, but I'm not that impressed with it yet (although I don't have the budget for the processing power for larger models).
You don't have to necessarily delete all of your projects, just make sure you do the opt-out through openai's privacy portal to make sure your data isn't used for training models
do you recommend one AI over another? Say Deepseek over Chatgpt?
I don’t have a specific AI recommendation, but from a privacy and security perspective, I would say that you most certainly shouldn’t use Deepseek, since it’s a China-based company, in my opinion (or any company in a questionable jurisdiction). And any AI-tool that doesn’t allow you privacy options and the ability to opt-out from training data is probably worth avoiding.
Great stuff, thank you!
This is such great information. May I please share the tips with my work team on our web site with credit to your Substack? I am a subscriber and will not share if you say “nay!” Thank you, Tate!!
Hi Karen, that's fine, thanks for asking! And thank you for subscribing :)