Will chat GPT train its model on uploaded attachments when thr “Improve Model for Everyone” setting is turned on?

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In short, I had disabled the setting “Improve model for Everyone” a while ago. At some point (possibly when updating the iOS GPT app?) it became enabled again without my awareness

I had asked GPT to perform a literary analysis on unpublished written works of mine before realizing the setting was re-enabled. This was not a temporary chat. Is GPT going to use this attachment for llm training down the road? I asked GPT directly and it said no today, but yes last night :thinking:

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Hi @Climhazzard :wave:
Welcome to the community :people_hugging: !

When the “Improve the model for everyone” setting is enabled in ChatGPT, your conversations and attached files MAY BE used to train and enhance OpenAI’s models.

Please visit this LINK

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In addition to this excellent reply, the only way around having your attachments used for training is to sign-up for a Team license.

Or Enterprise, if that’s an option.

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I suspect it probably will try to train on the uploaded pdf and I really, REALLY do not want that happen because these are novel literary works I have spent years writing and it would be extraordinarily disappointing to see someone take those styles and themes as their own, before I even have a chance to publish as an author. I have submitted privacy requests and contacted support with the details, but given the sheer volume of inquiries they probably get vs their team size I have my doubts they will address my concerns in time before the pdf is trained upon. Is there anything else I can do to prevent this?

FYI I’m. I am not against AI art but I didn’t even get a chance to publish or capitalize on this before it’s getting sent to the AI machine!! Literally years worth of work

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Yes.
You go to https://privacy.openai.com/
and make a request to not train on your data.

Please keep us in the loop how it went. I have never tried this myself.

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I already submitted a privacy request but it’s not a retroactive request :frowning: . It will still train on data submitted previously

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Thanks for sharing.
Are you located in the EU or maybe California? You could make use of the privacy laws to have your data deleted.

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Nope, I live in Maryland. Not in CA or EU

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As you submitted a request about privacy, this is the correct way you made. But, I never sent that kind of submition and I don’t know when they reply in hours or days.

BTW, for future reference about safety of your data, you may visit following links from OpenAI help pages:

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