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Friday 16 august 2024
One Tech Tip: Don’t want chatbots using your conversations for AI

training? Some let you opt out

By KELVIN CHAN the drop down menu, you ropean Union and the Unit- But the company warns tom right of the web page,
AP Business Writer can choose to stop record- ed Kingdom, which have it won’t automatically ful- then click on settings, and
LONDON (AP) — Be care- ing all future chats or delete strict privacy regulations, fill requests and will review you’ll get the same option
ful what you tell a chatbot. all your previous conversa- have the right to object them based on local laws. to opt out of AI training.
Your conversation might Mobile users can make the
be used to improve the ar- same choice on the Chat-
tificial intelligence system GPT Android and iOS apps.
that it’s built on. OpenAI says on its data
If you ask ChatGPT for ad- controls help page that
vice about your embar- when users opt out, their
rassing medical condition, conversations will still ap-
beware that anything you pear in the chat history but
disclose could be used won’t be used for training.
to tweak OpenAI’s algo- These temporary chats will
rithms that underpin its AI be kept for 30 days and re-
models. The same goes if, viewed only if needed to
for example, you upload a monitor for abuse.
sensitive company report Grok
to Google’s Gemini to sum- Elon Musk’s X quietly acti-
marize for a meeting. vated a setting that allows
It’s no secret that the AI the billionaire Tesla CEO’s
models underpinning pop- AI chatbot Grok to be
ular chatbots have been trained on data from the
trained on enormous troves social media platform. This
of information scraped setting has been turned on
from the internet, like blog by default and allows Grok
posts, news articles and so- to use data including your
cial media comments, so posts, “interactions, inputs,
they can predict the next and results” for training and
word when coming up with “fine-tuning.”
a response to your ques- Barbara Winston uses a computer at her home in Northbrook, Ill., on Sunday, June 30, 2024, several The change wasn’t pub-
tion. days after taking an introduction to artificial intelligence class at a local senior center. licized and only came to
This training was often Associated Press light after X users spotted
done without consent, rais- it in July. To opt out, you
ing copyright concerns. tions. The company warns to their information being The process itself is cum- need to go to settings on
and, experts say, given that any conversations that used to train Meta’s AI sys- bersome, requiring users X’s desktop browser ver-
the opaque nature of AI have been selected for hu- tems. From the Facebook to provide the chatbot re- sion, then click “Privacy
models, it’s probably too man review won’t be de- privacy page, click Other quest that produced a re- and safety,” scroll down to
late to remove any of your leted and are stored sepa- Policies and Articles from sponse with their personal “Grok” and then untick the
data that might have been rately. Whether you choose the list on the left side, then info and a screenshot of it. box. You can also delete
used. to turn your activity off or click the section on gener- Microsoft Copilot your conversation history
But what you can do going leave it on, Google also ative AI. Scroll down to find There’s no way to option with Grok if you have any.
forward is stop any of your says all chats with Gemini a link to a form where you to opt out for personal us- There’s no way to do it from
chatbot interactions from will be kept for 72 hours to can object. ers. The best you can do the X mobile app, unfortu-
being used for AI training. “provide the service and There’s a box to fill out with is delete your interactions nately.
It’s not always possible but process any feedback.” additional information to with the Copilot chatbot Claude
some companies give users Gemini’s help page also support your request, but by going to your Microsoft Anthropic AI says its chat-
the option: details the process for no details about what you account’s settings and pri- bot Claude is not trained on
Google Gemini iPhone and Android app should say. I wrote that I vacy page. Look for a drop personal data. It also does
Google keeps your conver- users. was exercising my right as down menu labeled Copi- not by default use ques-
sations with its Gemini chat- Meta AI a U.K. resident to withdraw lot interaction history or Co- tions or requests to train its
bot to train its machine Meta has an AI chatbot consent for my personal pilot activity history to find AI models. However, users
learning systems. For users that’s been butting into information to be used for the delete button. can give “explicit permis-
18 or older, chats are kept conversations on Face- AI training. I received an OpenAI’s ChatGPT sion” for a specific response
by default for 18 months, book, WhatsApp and In- email almost instantly say- If you’ve got an OpenAI to be used in training by
though that can be adjust- stagram, powered by its ing Meta had reviewed the account, go to the settings giving it a thumbs up or
ed in settings. Human re- open-source AI language request and would honor menu on your web browser thumbs down or by email-
viewers can also access the models. The company says my objection. and then to the Data con- ing the company. Conver-
conversations to improve those models are trained “This means your request trols section, where you can sations that are flagged for
the quality of the genera- on information shared on its will be applied going for- disable a setting to “Im- a safety review could also
tive AI models that power platforms including social ward,” it said. prove the model for every- be used to train the com-
Gemini. Google warns us- media posts and photos People in the United States one.” If you don’t have an pany’s systems to better
ers not to tell Gemini any and caption info, but not and other countries without account, click on the small enforce its rules.q
confidential information or your private messages with national data privacy laws question mark at the bot-
give it any data they don’t friends and family. They’re don’t have this option.
want a human reviewer to also trained on public- Meta’s privacy hub does
see. ly available information link to a form where users
To opt out of this, go to the scraped from other parts of can request that their data
Gemini website and click the web by “third parties.” scraped by third parties
the Activity tab. Click the Not everyone can opt out. not be used to “develop
Turn Off button and from People in the 27-nation Eu- and improve AI at Meta.”