OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company, has made an important change regarding its usage of customer data. In an interview with CNBC, company CEO Sam Altman announced that OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its AI models, including GPT. This change affects paying customers that use OpenAI to train their AI models. OpenAI has updated their terms of service to reflect this change on March 1 2021.
Experts have raised concerns about the use of AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, and the potential for data to be used for targeted advertising. Ali Vaziri, a legal director on the data and privacy team of the law firm Lewis Silkin, noted that the AI capabilities of these tools can be quite disarming. This use of AI and its potential impact on various areas, including security, privacy, and job market, has prompted a White House meeting with several major tech companies’ executives, including OpenAI.
The White House and the tech company CEOs discussed the need for transparency in the use of AI, as well as to create standards for verifying the safety, security and efficacy of AI systems. Additionally, the need for a AI Bill of Rights, executive actions, and a National AI Research Resource was proposed in order to ensure individuals’ safety and rights are protected.
With the update of OpenAI’s terms of service and the meeting with tech companies, OpenAI hopes to promote not only responsible innovation, but also data privacy and protection. Although OpenAI may continue to use text from services such as ChatGPT in their AI models, the company is taking steps to protect individuals and prevent malicious usage of AI.
OpenAI, founded in 2015, is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, devoted to creating advanced artificial general intelligence with broad applicability across various domains. In 2020, it unveiled the first commercially deployed “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” (GPT) model, a natural language processing system capable of generating human-like text effects. OpenAI has received funding support from tech industry leaders such as Microsoft, Y Combinator, and Apple.
Sam Altman is the president of OpenAI. He is a venture capitalist and software engineer. Altman is also the cofounder of the technology incubator Y Combinator, for which he served as president from 2014-2018. Outside of his work at OpenAI, Altman is also the chairman of Y Combinator and a board member of companies such as Airbnb and Reddit. In addition, he was also the CEO of Looptis, a location-based mobile application.
