OpenAI

ChatGPT is useful enough that people share things with it they’d never say out loud in public. Confidential work documents. Medical symptoms. Financial details. Legal situations. Personal struggles. That raises a fair question: is that safe? What actually happens to what you type? The answer is nuanced, and the right response isn’t “never use it” or “it’s totally fine.” It’s knowing what the actual risks are so you can make a smart call. ...

You’ve heard about ChatGPT everywhere — at work, on the news, from your kids. Maybe you’ve tried it and gotten something useful back. Maybe you’ve tried it and gotten nonsense. Either way, you probably still have a nagging question: what actually is this thing? Here’s the honest answer, no computer science degree required. It’s a Text Prediction Machine (a Very Good One) At its core, ChatGPT is a language model. That sounds fancy, but it just means: a system trained to predict what word (or phrase) should come next, given everything that came before it. ...

How to Use ChatGPT Memory: Make It Remember Your Preferences Every time you start a new ChatGPT conversation, you used to start from zero. No context about who you are, how you like things written, what you do for work, or what you’ve already discussed. ChatGPT Memory changes that. It lets ChatGPT retain information between conversations — so you stop re-explaining yourself every time. This guide covers how it works, how to set it up, what gets stored (and what doesn’t), and how to control it. ...