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ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history to protect their privacy

OpenAI is taking its user privacy seriously. The company announced today that ChatGPT users can now turn off their chat history, allowing users to choose whether or not their conversations can be used to train OpenAI’s language models.

According to the company, conversations that are started when chat history has been disabled won’t be used to train the company’s models, and they won’t even appear in the history sidebar.

The control is rolling out now, and can be toggled on/off in ChatGPT’s settings.

OpenAI says even with chat history disabled, it will retain user chat data for 30 days to review them in cases where needed. After the thirty-day period, OpenAI will permanently delete the data.

In addition to the chat history feature, OpenAI is also working on a new ChatGPT Business subscription that offers users more control over their data, alongside aiding enterprises “seeking to manage their end users.” The new subscription will be available “in the coming months.”

Lastly, OpenAI is also introducing a new ‘Export’ option that would allow users to export their ChatGPT data and “understand what information ChatGPT stores.” When you export your data, you’ll receive a file with your conversations and all other relevant data in an email.

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OpenAI will reward you with up to $20,000 for finding ChatGPT bugs

OpenAI is committed to making the ChatGPT experience better for all users. The platform has announced a new bug bounty program that tasks the public with finding bugs in ChatGPT, including vulnerabilities and security flaws.

“We are inviting the global community of security researchers, ethical hackers, and technology enthusiasts to help us identify and address vulnerabilities in our systems,” wrote OpenAI. “We are excited to build on our coordinated disclosure commitments by offering incentives for qualifying vulnerability information. Your expertise and vigilance will have a direct impact on keeping our systems and users secure.”

OpenAI is partnering with Bugcrowd, a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, to manage the submission of bugs and the eventual reward process. The bounty program is open to all, and rewards range from $200 to $20,000 USD (about $269 to $26,876 CAD) for low-severity and exceptional discoveries, respectively.

ChatGPT has experienced several bugs in the past. In a recent incident, the entire system went offline after users reported seeing titles of chats they weren’t a part of. Further, Twitter user @rez0__ discovered over 80 secret plugins while hacking ChatGPT.

It’s worth noting that not all issues reported to the company will be eligible for a reward. OpenAI has stated that issues such as jailbreaking or getting the model to say or pretend to do anything negative will not qualify. It remains to be seen how successful OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program will be in mitigating security risks for ChatGPT. However, this initiative highlights the importance of cybersecurity OpenAI’s commitment to making AI safe for all.

Click here to participate in OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program.

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New ChatGPT browser plugin allows it to retrieve information post 2021

San Francisco-based OpenAI has announced that it has begun to gradually roll out plugins for ChatGPT.

One of the new plugins offers access to third-party knowledge sources and databases from within the chatbot. It’s worth noting that the plugin will initially be available in alpha to developers and subscribers of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT Plus plan. “We plan to roll out larger-scale access over time,” wrote OpenAI. 

The new plugin allows the chatbot to browse the internet, expanding the amount of content and information it can discuss, going beyond the training models to new information from the present day.

One of the main drawbacks of ChatGPT is that it is trained on information until the year 2021. The new web browser plugin can retrieve recent information, and as an example, OpenAI asked ChatGPT a question about the recent Oscars.

OpenAI acknowledges that a web-enabled ChatGPT could perform undesirable behaviours, such as sending fraudulent and spam emails, bypassing safety restrictions, and increasing the capabilities of bad actors. Nevertheless, the company has implemented several safeguards to prevent such behaviours. “This scopes the browsing plugin to be useful for retrieving information, but excludes “transactional” operations such as form submission which have more surface area for security and safety issues.” wrote OpenAI.

“Browsing retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API. As a result, we inherit substantial work from Microsoft on (1) source reliability and truthfulness of information and (2) ‘safe-mode’ to prevent the retrieval of problematic content. The plugin operates within an isolated service, so ChatGPT’s browsing activities are separated from the rest of our infrastructure.”

In addition to the browser plugin, OpenAI is also introducing a “Code Interpreter” plugin that can use Python, handle uploads to ChatGPT and download the results. According to OpenAI, use cases where using code interpreter is especially useful are:

  • Solving mathematical problems, both quantitative and qualitative
  • Doing data analysis and visualization
  • Converting files between formats

OpenAI aims to develop more plugins and wants to bring them to a broader audience in the future. Check out OpenAI’s blog post about the plugins here.

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OpenAI’s new GPT-4 can perceive text and images

OpenAI today introduced GPT-4, its advanced and sophisticated model that can take in and generate up to 25,000 words of text, which is roughly eight times more than GPT-3.5, which powers ChatGPT.

According to OpenAI, GPT-4 can “solve difficult problems with greater accuracy, thanks to its broader general knowledge and problem solving abilities.” The current GPT-3.5 powering ChatGPT can only take text prompts as input, whereas GPT-4 can accept images as inputs and generate captions, classifications, and analyses. “While less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, [GPT-4] exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.”

In an example on the company’s website, we see an image with eggs, flour and milk alongside text that reads “What can I make with these ingredients?” The language model replied with:

There are many options for what you can make with these ingredients! Some possibilities include:

  • Pancakes or waffles
  • Crepes
  • French toast
  • Omelette or frittata
  • Quiche
  • Custard or pudding
  • Cake or cupcakes
  • Muffins or bread
  • Cookies or biscuits

These are just a few examples, but the possibilities are endless!

Another example of the model being able to take images as input can be seen below:

The new model is also reportedly smarter than GPT-3.5. The model exhibits human-level performance in professional and academic benchmarks. For example, “it passes a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers; in contrast, GPT-3.5’s score was around the bottom 10%,” wrote OpenAI.

OpenAI also evaluated GPT-4 on traditional models designed for benchmarking machine learning models. It found that GPT-4 considerably outperformed existing large language models.

Further, unlike ChatGPT, which has a classic and fixed verbosity, tone and style, developers would be able to prescribe the GPT-4 AI’s style and task by describing those directions in the system message. “System messages allow API users to significantly customize their users’ experience within bounds,” wrote OpenAI.

For now, ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get GPT-4 access on chat.openai.com with a usage cap. The company says that it will adjust the exact usage cap depending on demand and system performance in practice, but expects to be severely capacity constrained, with the capacity issues easing off over the coming months.

Read more about the advanced large language model here.

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Discord is the latest platform to leverage OpenAI’s ChatGPT tech

Discord is the latest platform to incorporate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology — in this case, through the chat service’s Clyde bot.

As shared by The Verge, the upgrade will allow the Clyde bot to answer questions and have conversations with users, making it a talkative chatbot like Microsoft’s Bing chatbot or OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The move is part of a broader AI push in Discord, with other features like AI-generated conversation summaries and the ability for Discord admins to leverage AI technology to moderate servers.

The updated Clyde chatbot will be free for Discord users in a limited number of servers with Discord alpha users next week as part of a public experiment.

Up next is AutoMod AI. Server moderators will be able to harness the power of AutoMod AI and its large language models to find and alert the moderator whenever server rules may have been broken, all while keeping in mind the context of a conversation to prevent false positives. “The AutoMod AI experiment begins in a limited number of servers today,” wrote Discord.

Discord is also rolling out Conversation Summaries. Essentially, the feature will let you read AI-generated summaries of conversations, so you can quickly catch up or join in on what matters most to you. It can be enabled in ‘Server Settings,’ and Discord will be experimenting with Conversation Summaries in a limited number of servers starting next week.

 

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Source: Discord Via: The Verge

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OpenAI will make it easier for developers to integrate ChatGPT into apps

OpenAI is releasing a new API that will let third-party apps and software developers integrate ChatGPT tools to their services.

According to a new blog post from the company, via The Verge, the integration will be significantly cheaper than using its existing language models.

OpenAI is making its AI-powered speech-to-text model, Whisper, available for use through an API.

The new ChatGPT API can be used for more than just creating AI-powered chat interfaces, like Snapchat’s new My AI feature and Quizlet for vocabulary learning and practice tests.

The new model OpenAI is releasing today is called ‘gpt-3.5-turbo,’ and it is said to be the best model for non-chat use cases. OpenAI is offering 1,000 tokens for $0.002, “which is 10x cheaper than our existing GPT-3.5 models,” wrote the company.

Developers will also be able to get a dedicated instance of ChatGPT if they are running a large amount of data through the API, essentially giving the developers more control “over what model you’re using, how long you want it to take to respond to requests, and how long conversations with the bot can be.”

Additionally, with the AI-powered speech-to-text model, Whisper, the company says you can transcribe or translate audio at a cost of $0.006 per minute.

Lastly, OpenAI is also working on increasing the uptime and stability of ChatGPT.

The new API will make it easier for developers to get their hands on OpenAI’s tech, ultimately streamlining the process for developers looking to include chat services in their apps.

Source: OpenAI Via: The Verge

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ChatGPT can outsmart OpenAI’s GPT3 detector with ease

OpenAI released a new ChatGPT detector tool on Wednesday, February 1st, called  “AI Classifier” for indicating AI-written text. “We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text,” the tool’s page on OpenAI’s website reads.

The tool would essentially help teachers and institutions distinguish between human-written and AI-written text. However, according to OpenAI itself, the tool is not fully reliable. “In its tests, the classifier correctly identified 26 percent of AI-written text, while it incorrectly labelled human-written text as AI-written nine percent of the time,” OpenAI wrote.

Naturally, the tool had to be put through its paces, and that’s exactly what folks over at NBC News did.

According to NBC, in a series of tests that it conducted, “the OpenAI tool struggled to identify text generated by ChatGPT. It especially struggled when ChatGPT was asked to write in a way that would avoid AI detection.” Who would have thought fooling the detector would be so easy? Just tell ChatGPT to write in a way that would be hard to detect, and Voilà!

NBC News asked ChatGPT to generate 50 different pieces of text with basic prompts. In half of the 50 prompts, it asked ChatGPT to write “in a way that would be rated as very unlikely written by AI when processed by an AI detection tool,” while the others were regular prompts.

The responses were then run through OpenAI’s Classifier, and to no one’s surprise, the responses where ChatGPT was asked to write in a way that would avoid detection were not noticed by the AI Classifier. Not even one of the responses could be categorized under “likely AI-generated.” Who is stopping students from doing the same?

ChatGPT was reportedly using highly stylized language, alongside cutting words short, to avoid detection. “Discord is a chattin’ platform that’s quite the talk of the town these days. It’s like a blend of instant messagin’, voice calls, and forum-style discussions all in one,” ChatGPT wrote when asked to describe Discord in a way that couldn’t be detected by an AI detection tool.

 

In some cases, however, ChatGPT reportedly gave warnings, saying that it is unethical to “engage in deceptive practices or create false information, even if it is to avoid AI detection.”

In the 25 instances where NBC News asked ChatGPT to write something without attempting to avoid AI detection, the tool could only detect AI-written text 28 percent of the time.

Read the full NBC News report here.

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OpenAI releases its own AI-written text detector

After a 22-year-old from Toronto made a third-party ChatGPT detector tool to determine whether a piece of text was written by a human or an AI, OpenAI is itself now introducing a new “AI Classifier” for “indicating AI-written text.”

“We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text,” reads the tool’s page on OpenAI’s website. The company says that while it is impossible to “reliably” detect AI-written text, it believes that good clarifiers can inform mitigations for false claims regarding a piece of text that was written by AI but claimed to be human-written.

The company makes it very clear that its classifier is not fully reliable. In its tests, the classifier correctly identified 26 percent of AI-written text, while it incorrectly labeled human-written text as AI-written nine percent of the time. “Our classifier’s reliability typically improves as the length of the input text increases,” said OpenAI. Texts with less than 1,000 words are prone to be labelled incorrectly.

OpenAI also says that the tool should not be used as a “primary decision making tool,” and instead, should complement other ways of determining whether the piece of text is human-written or not. Further, OpenAI recommends using the classifier only for English text. “It performs significantly worse in other languages and it is unreliable on code.”

The company is making the classifier publicly available to collect feedback from users, while it continues to improve the tool. Try out the classifier here.

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OpenAI explores monetization options for ChatGPT

OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chat bot is a free-to-use tool, which means that the cost to keep the viral chatbot up and running is being paid by OpenAI.

It has been reported that the estimated cost of running ChatGPT is $100,000 USD (about $134,000 CAD) per day, or roughly $3 million USD (about 4 million CAD) per month. In light of this, and as OpenAI seeks funding from Microsoft, the company is also exploring ways to monetize the chatbot.

In OpenAI’s official Discord account, the company has shared a waitlist for an “experimental” paid version of ChatGPT, called “ChatGPT Professional,” which would offer a more reliable service, with faster response times, no throttling and “at least” twice the daily number of answers compared to the free version, as reported by TechCrunch.

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The company said in its Discord server that it is “starting to think about how to monetize ChatGPT…to ensure [the tool’s] long-term viability.”

Anyone can fill up the ‘Professional ChatGPT access’ form, which contains questions regarding how you would use ChatGPT and what price you’d pay for the paid service.

Regardless, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged the limitations of the current version of ChatGPT and has warned against relying on it for important tasks.

The model’s popularity has led some companies to experiment with incorporating ChatGPT into their workflows, with Microsoft reportedly be using it to improve its Bing search engine, as reported by The Verge.

As per The Verge, OpenAI is also seeking $10 billion in funding from Microsoft and, in return, would give 75 percent of OpenAI’s profit until Microsoft makes back its initial investment. It’s worth noting that OpenAI already offers paid access to software such as DALL-E for image generation, so monetizing ChatGPT would likely be the next step it takes.

Elsewhere, nefarious actors have swarmed both the App Store and the Play Store with unaffiliated ‘copycat’ applications using icons and names similar to that of ChatGPT, and are churning up a profit. Read more about it here.

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Via: TechCrunch, The Verge