rolling out ads at the bottom of ChatGPT outputs<\/a> for US users. AI rivals such as Google are also exploring displaying ads within its generative AI products and services.<\/p>\n\u201cNothing about our policy of not sharing people\u2019s conversations or other private user content with advertisers has changed. Like many companies, OpenAI works with select marketing partners to help people learn about our products on third-party websites and apps, and we updated our privacy policy to clarify how this works,\u201d OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson was quoted as saying by Wired.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not share your conversations with these marketing partners. To make OpenAI marketing efforts more relevant and measure their effectiveness, we may share limited identifiers, such as cookie IDs or device IDs, and users can opt out at any time in settings,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
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What does OpenAI\u2019s new privacy policy say?<\/p>\n
In the Disclosure of Personal Data section of the updated privacy policy, OpenAI has detailed how it discloses personal data. Identifiers such as users\u2019 email addresses or cookie IDs may be shared with advertising platforms, as per the updated policy. This will likely allow OpenAI to check whether users have taken specific actions like signing up for its Codex AI coding assistant after they get shown an ad for it on Instagram.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s updated privacy policy follows, with the changes reflected in italics:<\/p>\n
We disclose your Personal Data in the following circumstances:<\/p>\n
Vendors, Service Providers, and Marketing Partners: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we disclose Personal Data to vendors, service providers, and marketing partners, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, content delivery services, support and safety services, email communication software, web analytics services, payment and transaction processors, search and shopping providers, and information technology providers. We also work with service providers who help us with age and identity verification, and you can learn more here\u2060\u2060. When we work with Service Providers, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data based on our instructions and only in the course of performing their duties to us. We also share limited information with select marketing partners who are not service providers in order to promote our products and services on third-party properties and help us assess the effectiveness of those efforts. Some of these partners may receive information through cookies and similar technologies. Learn more about these practices and the choices available to you here\u2060.<\/p>\n
Here, personal data is categorised by OpenAI as birth dates, payment information, and any prompts a user might have written. The company emphasises that it does not use this information to infer characteristics about users.<\/p>\n
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How to opt out<\/p>\n
While news reports suggest that the marketing settings on ChatGPT are \u2018on\u2019 by default, follow these steps to opt out of this kind of tracking:<\/p>\n
-Visit the web version of ChatGPT
-Go to Settings ><\/a>; Data Controls > Marketing Privacy
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