Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has rolled out new privacy controls for its chatbot ChatGPT and has also previewed its business plans.
The company on Tuesday announced that ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history, allowing them to choose which conversations can be used to train OpenAI’s models or appear in the history sidebar. It further added that it will keep the new conversations for up to 30 days, but will only review them if it is necessary to monitor for abuse.
The company wrote via a blog post,
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“We’ve introduced the ability to turn off chat history in ChatGPT. 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. These controls, which are rolling out to all users starting today, can be found in ChatGPT’s settings and can be changed at any time.
“We hope this 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 them.”
OpenAI also revealed that ChatGPT data can be exported as of today. Users can request their data to be sent in a file to the email address associated with their OpenAI account. The new capabilities come as regulatory scrutiny grows over OpenAI’s data practices.
Aside from the rollout of new privacy controls for ChatGPT, OpenAI also disclosed its plans to introduce a new subscription tier for ChatGPT, tailored to the needs of enterprise customers.
The company had previously telegraphed that it was exploring additional paid plans for ChatGPT as the service rapidly grows. Recall that the chatbot’s first subscription tier, ChatGPT Plus, was launched in February and is priced at $20 per month.
Exploring potential new lines of revenue, OpenAI launched plug-ins for ChatGPT in March, which extended the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web.The company said on Tuesday that it plans to make a new ChatGPT Business subscription available in the coming months.
It is worth noting that ChatGPT plans to launch in Japan, after the company’s CEO Sam Altman earlier this month revealed plans of starting operations in the Asian country. The serial entrepreneur met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during a visit to Japan where he disclosed that his company is looking at setting up an office in the country as OpenAI seeks to build something great for the Japanese people.