As a web developer, I'll be perfectly honest in expressing shock that anyone would assume it wasn't being recorded. Even in far less important spaces, basically every click and keystroke is sent to some analytics service, and if you block it on the client, there's generally a server-side gatherer to pass on what it can. If you ever submit anything to any modern website, it is a somewhat safe assumption that it is recorded somewhere.
This applies a little less if you're in a country affected by GDPR, but even then - request that data some time, it's so much more than some people realize.
It saves all previous messages in an array of messages so it ‘remembers’ the conversation from the beginning. So when you post your message you’re also posting the complete message history. So it’s kind of not recording in the sense that it will give your conversation content to other users.
It is. The company I work for apparently have purchased a version of GPT4 that does not send data back to OpenAI. The conversation is still recorded by the folks who are maintaining it though.
>Data submitted through the OpenAI API is not used to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. Data submitted through non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL·E may be used to improve our models.
If you thought it wasn't that would be hopelessly naive. Of course they record it. They will also read it, analyze it and do whatever they want with your conversations.
Your conversation history in a thread is the entire prompt for each new question you ask. When you log in, you can see all of your prior conversations. So, yes.
It disables it for you. But I would not bet on it also disabling it for OpenAI and even if it does today there is no guarantee it will be like that tomorrow.
'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.'
I use ChatBot-UI to achieve something like 1 and 2 together. It runs locally and uses the OpenAI API to provide a ChatGPT-like experience, but the chat history is saved locally in the browser. It also has a useful prompt management sidebar.
Of course, OpenAI saves the data regardless, but they say they don't use API requests for training data and they claim it's deleted after 30 days.
