ChatGPT updated Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, effective December 14, 2023
openai.comLet's play a game, guess which ones are the new terms!
> 1A. Notice. If we terminate your account, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you in advance | 1B. We may terminate these Terms for any reason by providing you at least 30 days’ advance notice.
> 2A. Price increases will be effective 14 days after they are posted, except for increases made for legal reasons or increases made to Beta Services (as defined in our Service Terms), which will be effective immediately. Any price changes will apply to the Fees charged to your account immediately after the effective date | 2B. If we increase our subscription prices, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and any price increase will take effect on your next renewal so that you can cancel if you do not agree to the price increase.
> 3A. We have the right to correct pricing errors or mistakes even if we have already issued an invoice or received payment. | 3B. [seems to be not present]
> 4A. You are entitled to cancel your purchase and request a refund without stating the reason during the 14 days following the date of your purchase | 4B. [seems to be not present]
> 5A. If you believe we have suspended or terminated your account in error, you can file an appeal with us by contacting Support. | 5B. [seems to be not present]
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Also, this term is new:
> [disallowed:] Modifying, copying, leasing, selling or distributing any of our Services.
So gpt4free is now officially illegal I think, if whoever made it (or services it depends on) ever agreed to the openai terms, which is likely because how else do they talk to the API
> You may provide input to the Services (“Input”), and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “Content”. You are responsible for Content, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms.
This is not new, but something I didn't know they tried to push onto you. So if you make it generate a CSS flag or otherwise reproduce such an illegal number, that's on you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number "possession is claimed to be illegal in the United States")
its extremely hard to tell what actually changed here
someone commented this ChatGPT link as a summary of the changes... (but the comment seems to have been deleted? not sure why it was deleted but I thought the summary was useful - although of course hard to verify accuracy / hallucination free)
https://chat.openai.com/share/baf35afa-87c4-4946-8ef6-fe26f6...
IF that were a good summary it would seem relatively benign, except for the extremely scary penultimate line:
`Use of Content to Improve Services:
The older terms mentioned that OpenAI does not use content from the API to develop or improve services but may use content from other services to help develop and improve the services. Users had the option to opt-out if they didn't want their non-API content used for this purpose .
The new terms do not explicitly mention this aspect, which may suggest a change in policy or it might be covered under different specific documentation now .`
But then on closer inspection the business terms (which govern API use), do state: "We will not use Customer Content to develop or improve the Services." which I assume means that the underlying terms have not changed, they've just changed where the relevant terms live. ("Customer Content" is defined to mean customer provided inputs and outputs. I assume that if they can't train on Customer Content, that means they can't train on synthetic data create to resemble customer content as well, although I'm not a lawyer so would probably want to consult one about that.