{"id":22910,"date":"2023-05-05T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107236309"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:02:39","slug":"openai-changed-its-plans-and-wont-train-on-customer-data-sam-altman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/openai-changed-its-plans-and-wont-train-on-customer-data-sam-altman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI changed its plans and won&#8217;t train on customer data, Sam Altman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/openai-changed-its-plans-and-wont-train-on-customer-data-sam-altman-says.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-104297828\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Photo by Bloomberg <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\" readability=\"50.483801295896\">\n<p>OpenAI hasn&#8217;t trained its AI large-language models such as GPT with paying customer data &#8220;for a while,&#8221; CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers clearly want us not to train on their data, so we&#8217;ve changed our plans: We will not do that,&#8221; Altman told CNBC&#8217;s Andrew Ross Sorkin.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s terms of service were quietly updated March 1, records from the Internet Archive&#8217;s Wayback Machine show. &#8220;We don&#8217;t train on any API data at all, we haven&#8217;t&nbsp;for a while,&#8221; Altman told CNBC. APIs, or application programming interfaces, are frameworks that allow customers to plug directly into OpenAI&#8217;s software.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s business customers, which include <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Salesforce<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Snapchat<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, are more likely to take advantage of OpenAI&#8217;s API capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>But OpenAI&#8217;s new privacy and data protection extends only to customers who use the company&#8217;s API services. &#8220;We may use Content from Services other than our API,&#8221; the company&#8217;s updated Terms of Use note. That could include, for example, text that employees enter into the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT. Amazon <span class=\"waslinkname\">reportedly<\/span> recently warned employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT for fear that it might show up in answers.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes as industries grapple with the prospect of large-language models replacing material that humans create.<\/p>\n<p>The Writers Guild of America, for example, began <span class=\"waslinkname\">striking<\/span> Tuesday after negotiations between the Guild and movie studios broke down. The Guild had been pushing for limitations on the use of OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT for script generating or rewriting.<\/p>\n<p>Executives are equally concerned about the impact of ChatGPT and similar programs on their intellectual property. Entertainment mogul and IAC chairman Barry Diller has <span class=\"waslinkname\">suggested<\/span> that media companies could take their issues to the courts and potentially sue AI companies over the use of the creative content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Bloomberg OpenAI hasn&#8217;t trained its AI large-language models such as GPT with paying customer data &#8220;for a while,&#8221; CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Friday. &#8220;Customers clearly want us not to train on their data, so we&#8217;ve changed our plans: We will not do that,&#8221; Altman told CNBC&#8217;s Andrew Ross Sorkin. 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