ADVANCED chatbot ChatGPT can reveal users’ secret information if they’re not careful.
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a natural language chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
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ChatGPT can complete many tasks like answering prompts, writing essays, and even generating complex code in seconds.
Now experts are speaking out about what type of information users input into the chatbot.
Mike Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford Universitytold the Daily Mail that sharing private information with ChatGPT is “extremely unwise.”
ChatGPT can collect and process highly sensitive details from the prompts and responses users give.
It can then associate this information with a user’s email address and phone number, and store it.
That’s because to use the platform, users need to provide both an email address and mobile phone number.
And users cannot bypass this by using disposable or masked email addresses and phone numbers.
As a result, ChatGPT is firmly tied to your online identity as it records everything you input.
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Wooldridge is not alone in his concerns surrounding privacy while using ChatGPT.
Numerous experts have spoken out on the potential dangers of ChatGPT.
Earlier this year, in a blog post for Private Internet Access, tech journalist Glyn Moody detailed his concerns with ChatGPT.
“One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT concerns your privacy and almost nobody’s talking about it,” Moody writes.
“[ChatGPT] can learn a lot about your interests, beliefs, obsessions, and concerns – this is a highly capable machine learning system, after all,” the reporter says.
And because the system can engage in conversational dialogue, people can sometimes forget that it’s an AI system.
“In doing so, you may reveal things that you would never type into a search engine… and all of these personal facts are now tied to your email and your phone number,” Moody noted.
What’s more, because of the way that ChatGPT gathers data, it can scour immense sources of data to find things people have written or said over many years.
“Much of ChatGPT’s power lies in its ability to bring all these disparate inputs together and analyze them on a hitherto impractical scale,” Moody says.
“You should assume that anything you type into ChatGPT is just going to be fed directly into future versions of ChatGPT,” Woolbridge said.
Wooldridge added that ChatGPT also “has no empathy… and no sympathy,” making the tool more dangerous to users.
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“The technology is basically designed to try to tell you what you want to hear – that’s literally all it’s doing,” he said.
OpenAI in its FAQ advises its millions of daily users to not share “any sensitive information in their conversation.”
