Quote:A comprehensive guide to configuring privacy and security in ChatGPT: data collection and usage, memory, Temporary Chats, connectors, and account security.
 
When we interact with artificial intelligence, we often share a significant amount of personal information without giving it much thought. This information can range from dietary preferences and marital status to our home address and even social security number. To ensure the security and privacy of this highly sensitive information, it’s essential to understand exactly what the AI does with your data: where it stores it and whether it uses it for training.

In this post, we take a closer look at the data collection policy of one of the most popular AI apps, ChatGPT, and explain how to configure it to maximize your privacy and security to the extent that OpenAI allows it. This is a long guide — but a comprehensive one.

Table of contents

• What data ChatGPT collects about users
  
• Why ChatGPT collects data, and whether it’s used for model training
  
• How you can prohibit ChatGPT from using various types of your data for training
  
• What ChatGPT remembers about you, and how you can manage AI memory
  
• How you can enable Temporary Chats in ChatGPT, and why you should use them
  
• How to configure ChatGPT to work with local apps on your device
  
• The risks of connecting third-party online services to ChatGPT, and how to disable these connections
  
• How to protect your ChatGPT account from being hacked
  

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