Privacy Nightmare: Microsoft Will Store All Your Bing Chats If You Are A Non-Enterprise User

Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing Chat powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT could have a new problem on the horizon for users – privacy concerns.

What Happened: Microsoft has updated its terms of service for "AI Services", giving it the power to store the conversations of Bing Chat users.

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Microsoft has some crucial information for Bing Chat users in its updated terms of service, which were first announced on July 30 and will go into effect on September 30.

"As part of providing the AI services, Microsoft will process and store your inputs to the service as well as output from the service," Microsoft's updated terms say, as users worry about how these companies use their inputs and data.

Microsoft notes that this data will be used for monitoring purposes only, apart from preventing abusive or harmful use of the output generated by Bing Chat. Interestingly, the new terms only talk about storing the data, not that Microsoft will use it to train Bing Chat yet.

OpenAI, in which Microsoft has invested over $10 billion to date, has also clarified that it will not use user inputs to train ChatGPT.

"OpenAI never trains on anything ever submitted to the API or uses that data to improve our models in any way," said OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.

Enterprise Users Are Safe: While Microsoft said it would store chats of non-enterprise users, paying enterprise users are safe for now.

The company announced Bing Chat Enterprise in July this year and clarified that it does not save any conversations or inputs from users of this service.

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