How your data is used to improve model performance changed OpenAI, Jan 7, 2026
OpenAI · Jan 7, 2026 · 2 added, 2 removed · found in an Internet Archive capture
- Added: One of the most useful and promising features of AI models is that they can improve over time. We continuously improve our models through research breakthroughs as well as exposure to real-world problems and data. When you share your content with us, it helps our models become more accurate and better at solving your specific problems and it also helps improve their general capabilities and safety. We do not use your content to market our services or create advertising profiles of you-we use it to make our models more helpful. ChatGPT, for instance, improves by further training on the conversations people have with it, unless you opt out .
- Removed: One of the most useful and promising features of AI models is that they can improve over time. We continuously improve our models through research breakthroughs as well as exposure to real-world problems and data. When you share your content with us, it helps our models become more accurate and better at solving your specific problems and it also helps improve their general capabilities and safety. We don't use your content to market our services or create advertising profiles of you-we use it to make our models more helpful. ChatGPT, for instance, improves by further training on the conversations people have with it, unless you opt out .
- Added: Even if you have opted out of training, you can still choose to provide feedback to us about your interactions with our products (for instance, by selecting thumbs up or thumbs down on a model response). If you choose to provide feedback, the entire conversation associated with that feedback may be used to train our models.
- Removed: Even if you've opted out of training, you can still choose to provide feedback to us about your interactions with our products (for instance, by selecting thumbs up or thumbs down on a model response). If you choose to provide feedback, the entire conversation associated with that feedback may be used to train our models.
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- help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance
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- 58faa8ebe851 to fad606b545da
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