Just received this article from a friend, read it, and it sure is an eye opener. Good or bad, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be growing by leaps and bounds:
Here's the opening paragraphs, which will get your attention.
Jim Hamm
"OpenAI's privacy policy says that when you "use our Services, we may collect Personal Information that is included in the input, file uploads, or feedback that you provide." Specifically, that means that if you ask ChatGPT questions that contain personal information, that information will be sent to OpenAI. That's a big deal when you realize your chat may be read by a human reviewer.
The company says it anonymizes conversations before they are seen by a human, but that just means that it removes identifying information from the metadata of the file--not the content of your prompt. If you include personal information, that information will still be included.
The company isn't clear on whether it reviews the audio files to determine the effectiveness of its speech-to-text transcription, but the privacy policy certainly gives it the right to do so. That means that humans at OpenAI could listen to what you say, not just read what you type. It also means that they would have access to whatever other sound is going on in the background while you're using the feature."