Editing ChatGPT

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'''ChatGPT''' (Chat Generative Pre-Trained) is a generative artificial intelligence application developed and marketed by [[OpenAI]]. It was released on November 30th, 2022. It is a large language model (LLM) specialized in dialog that can perform human-like conversations. It is composed by GPT-3, GPT-4, GPT-4o, and its previews OpenAI-o1, OpenAI-o1 mini and GPT-5.

==Consumer-impact summary==
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*Misleading advertising.  ChatGPT terms of service say it should not be used to make decisions about people.  However their advertising claims it is "PhD level" and makes other claims that seem to imply it is reliable.  Many people use ChatGPT as if its output were meaningful, reliable, or a substitute for interaction with a person.
*Credits (money) expire automatically with no notification, and the credit balance interface makes this process confusing. You must maintain a positive account balance, and you are auto-billed a fixed amount if it goes negative. Accounts can be banned and credits confiscated for typing the wrong things in chat, with no recourse.
*A mobile phone number in a friendly country is required to better track your identity.

This is what '''OpenAI''' says as part of their data usage policy:

''We share content with a select group of trusted service providers that help us provide our services. We share the minimum amount of content we need in order to accomplish this purpose and our service providers are subject to strict confidentiality and security obligations. We do not use or share user content for marketing or advertising purposes.''<!-- Placeholder. -->

==Incidents==
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===Security Breach (2023)===
On March, 2023 a bug allowed some users to see other users' conversation titles. Sam Altman stated users couldn't see other users' conversation content. After the bug was fixed, users reported they were unable to see their conversation historial.{{Citation needed}}. 

===Ads (2026)===
On January 16th, 2026, OpenAI announced that they will be implementing ads for the free tier and the lowest paid tier (ChatGPT Go) for users over 18 from the United States. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/ |title=Our Approach To Advertising and Expanding Access to ChatGPT |date=16 Jan 2026 |first=Fidgi |last=Simo |access-date=25 Jan 2026}}</ref>



==See also==
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