"Dear CTO, let me leech onto this unrelated topic to ask you to completely remove ways you gather data (even though it's the core way you create any of your products)."
Some people man..
That wouldn't remove anything. Quite the contrary, they'd be in a stronger position for it, since the companies won't have access to e.g. your email, or your code, whereas OpenAI will.
I'm fine trusting OpenAI with that kind of sensitive info. But right now there are several dozen new startups launching every month, all powered by ChatGPT. And they're all vying for me to send them a different aspect of my life, whether it's email or code or HN comments. Surely we can agree that HN comments are fine to send to random companies, but emails aren't.
I suspect that this pattern is going to become a big issue in the near future. Maybe I'll turn out to be wrong about that.
It's also not my choice in most cases. I want to use ChatGPT in a business context. But that means the company I work for needs to also be ok with sending their confidential information to random companies. Who would possibly agree to such a thing? And that's a big segment of the market lost.
Whereas I think companies would be much more inclined to say "Ok, but as long as OpenAI are the only ones to see it." Just like they're fine with Google holding their email.
Or I'm completely wrong about this and users/companies don't care about privacy at all. I'd be surprised, but I admit that's a possibility. Maybe ChatGPT will be that good.
Company can upload some prompts to OpenAI, and be given 'prompt tokens'.
Then companies client side app can run a query with '<prompt_token>[user data]<other_prompt_token>'. They may have a delegated API key which has limits applied - for example, may only use this model, must always start with this prompt.
That really reduces the privacy worries of using all these third party companies.
As someone working for a random middle-man, I hope OpenAI maintain the status quo and continue to focus on the core product.
No, their data goes to random companies when they use random companies. And these services also exist for google.
Still wrong obv but for a different reason.
It is infuriating how everyone is describing all GPT models as "ChatGPT". It's very misleading.
https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523
https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523#issuecomment...
But that would break the server lock-in subscript model, so only downloadable software would work.
That's because they do it to get access to your e-mails, not to give you AI powered email autocomplete.
The same thing happened with code. There’s a ChatGPT integration for pycharm, but I can’t use it since it’ll be uploading the code to someone other than OpenAI.
This problem may seem unsolvable, but there are a few reasons to take it seriously. E.g. you’re outsourcing your reputation to third party companies. The moment one of these companies breaches user trust, people will be upset at you in addition to them.
Everyone’s data goes to Google when they use Google. But everyone’s data goes to a bunch of random companies when they use ChatGPT. The implications of this seem to be pretty big.