OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention

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OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the position on Wednesday in a post titled “Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models”. In it, it previewed Private Safety Processing. The system looks for misuse across several related interactions at once, and OpenAI says its own staff never see the prompts or responses underneath.

Zero data retention, or ZDR, is an option for eligible API customers. OpenAI does not keep their prompts or model responses once it has processed a request. Its personnel cannot pull that content up for review. Enterprise data does not train the models either, unless a customer opts in. Those four promises are what the new system is meant to protect.

What Private Safety Processing is for

The company’s case rests on a limit it says it has hit. Today’s...

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