OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company hasn’t trained GPT to mine paid customer data ‘for a while’.

Altman said OpenAIhad expressed disapproval of the use of their data for training AI models, prompting the company to revise its plans. According to reports, OpenAI quietly updated its terms of service on March 1 to reflect this change in policy. The use of AI technology has sparked debates on ethics, privacy and the potential risks of its dissemination.

According to a recent statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company has not been using any data from its API customers for training purposes for quite some time. APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are software frameworks that enable direct access to OpenAI’s technology. Notably, OpenAI’s customers currently include major companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, and Snapchat.

At a recent event organized by fintech company Stripe, Sam Altman Expressing his opinion on remote work, he said that the era of remote work is over. Altman argued that employees working from an office setting are more conducive to creating new products, while remote work can lead to confusion. Altman, who is 38, saw remote working as an experiment and believed the tech industry’s assumption that everyone could work remotely indefinitely was one of its biggest mistakes.

At the same event hosted by Stripe, Sam Altman expressed his belief that assuming everyone could work remotely indefinitely was one of the biggest mistakes the tech industry has made in recent times. Altman said the notion that startups do not need to be physically together and there would be no loss of creativity was misguided. He further emphasized that experimentation on remote working was over and technology had not yet advanced to the point where people could work remotely indefinitely, especially in the context of startups. According to Altman, the need for physical proximity and personal collaboration is important for fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace.

Sam Altman’s comments coincide with reports that OpenAI’s losses were set to nearly double in 2022 to around $540 million. According to sources familiar with the company’s financial position, as cited by The Information, the increase in losses was due to the development of chatgpt and recruiting several executives from Google. The report also highlights the significant costs associated with training large language models, which were incurred long before ChatGPT was publicly available.

OpenAI recently released a paid version of its chatbot, but the costs associated with training future versions of its software are expected to increase as the number of customers using its AI technology grows. Meanwhile, Sam Altman is reported to have privately discussed the possibility of raising about $100 billion over the next few years to develop artificial general intelligence. Such an ambitious endeavor would require massive funding, potentially making OpenAI one of the world’s best-funded AI research companies.