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The popular chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) will be able to store key details about its users to make answers more personalized and more helpful," according to OpenAI..
These can be facts about your family or health, or preferences about how you want ChatGPT to talk to you, so that instead of starting on a blank page, its armed with useful context..
OpenAI states that users will be in control of ChatGPTs memory," but also that the bot can pick up details itself.".
A recent survey of 11 romance chatbots found nearly all of them said they might share personal data with advertisers and other third parties, including details about peoples sexual health and medication use, according to the Mozilla Foundation, [a US-based non-profit organization] that promotes online transparency..
Heres another unintended consequence that has echoes of Facebook: a memory-retentive ChatGPT thats more personalized could reinforce the filter bubbles people find themselves in, thanks to social feeds that for years have fed them a steady diet of content confirming their cultural and political biases..
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