October 31, 2024
When using a version of ChatGPT or similar AI tools as part of your business, it's important to know how to use them. Here’s what to know from Open AI’s fine print.
When using Open AI’s ChatGPT you should NOT…
Enter sensitive or confidential information.
In a dispute between you (the rightful owner of your information) and OpenAI itself, you will own your content. However, OpenAI can still use that content to provide and maintain their services, which includes processing that content to improve OpenAI’s models. If you don’t want OpenAI to use your content as part of their non-API tools (like ChatGPT), you can disable that functionality by following these instructions. OpenAI also has a helpful Data Control FAQ page here.
Assume you have the absolute rights to use the content that is output from OpenAI’s tools.
Again, as between you and OpenAI, you own your content, but that doesn’t mean you have similar rights to others’ intellectual property, some of which may be mixed up in the content that OpenAI’s tools generate and output to you. And, content that is requested by and generated for other users will not be your property.
Assume you can protect something if you didn’t create it.
For instance, if you create content with AI tools, it’s likely not protectable by US intellectual property laws, including copyright, particularly if it was created exclusively by the tool and with no human contribution.
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