ChatGPT and Privacy:
ChatGPT is on everyone’s mind. Unless, you have been living under a rock, it is the latest in the technology that is truly shaking the tech sector. For the uninitiated, ChatGPT is an AI language model and conversational bot that answers all your questions! 🙂 You can ask it any question and it will answer it for you. You can ask it questions related to Tamil, programming, poems, blog posts, cooking, recipes and more and build a good conversation. It will note your previous questions and answer questions in context. You can access it by clicking on the following link:
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
The only catch is you do have to login with your Facebook or Google account to actually use ChatGPT.
There have only been two concerns when working with ChatGPT so far:
- Figuring out how to leverage it to its maximum potential
- And wondering if and which jobs will be displaced by it
Privacy concerns:
As I was working on it, I discovered yet another concern. Being a privacy warrior myself, I couldn’t help but notice the amount of information I was giving to the AI language to get an appropriate answer. It also knew who was asking the question since we HAD to be logged in as well. What was ChatGPT doing with all of the data I was giving it? Consuming it, of course…!! 🙁 to train itself for future answers…
Machine language and AI’s primary food is our data! The algorithms work properly and much more efficiently only if it is given an insane amount of data. How and where is this data found? Not hard to guess, but we are its DATA…
ChatGPT has apparently been trained by feeding off information off the Internet from blog posts, product reviews and any other social media activity. It is supposed to have been given 300 billion words from the Internet activity all around(face palm! :() Do you think whatever you said anywhere on the Internet might have been used as well? You bet…there is a distinct possibility 🙁 Were you asked before your data was used? Nope…
There go all our privacy concerns in the air…(basic privacy is protection of personal information)
While the truth is AI models like ChatGPT can work successfully only if it is fed with user data and OpenAI(the company that created ChatGPT) is transparent about its data collection and data storage policies, privacy is still a major concern.
Here is a screen shot of ChatGPT’s data collection procedure:
The following shows a screen shot of the OpenAI’s General FAQ page which shows data collection procedure of the AI language model.
Privacy laws:
For the time being, ChatGPT is only bound by laws for residents of California. With the initial flurry of AI happiness, ChatGPT has not been bound by any of the privacy laws like GDPR, CCPA, or any other international privacy laws.
Well, I have a feeling that time will give an answer to if AI tools will be bound by privacy laws in the future and keep all of our Internet data private and safe!
Technology of this type has its huge merits
But privacy will certainly be a casualty. Privacy is already a casualty with Google spying on us relentlessly.
True.. unfortunately, privacy is the one we all lose in the end for fancy technology