Customer data will not be used
“Customers clearly want us not to train on their own data, so we changed our plans: We’re not going to do that,” Altman said. According to the information obtained, OpenAI’s terms of service were quietly updated on March 1. “We won’t be working on any API data, nor have we been working on it for a while,” Altman said.
The company’s updated Terms of Use state that “We may use Content from Services outside of our API”. For example, this might include texts employees enter into the hugely popular chatbot ChatGPT. As we mentioned in our previous news, companies such as Amazon and Samsung warned and even banned their employees from sharing company information with ChatGPT. OpenAI already uses the data of normal users in training and does not store it either.
Although OpenAI has stopped using customer data, its implications for intellectual property are increasingly controversial. OpenAI, which uses copyrighted materials in the training of AI models, has not taken any action in this regard for now. Another controversy revolves around the Writers Guild of America. Unity wants restrictions on the use of ChatGPT for scripting or rewriting, but the studios aren’t too keen on that.