Complete panic over ChatGPT uploads!!! Aibu?

[JustSilver]

Please be gentle with me here. I suffer quite badly from anxiety and OCD, so I’m quite fragile (working on all of that) and I know I’ve been stupid here!

In the last couple of months, I sort of found ChatGPT. I have been amazed by everything it can do. I recently used it to edit the backgrounds of some family photos, which to be honest, didn’t even work that well. I didn’t have an account, and I assumed that using it anonymously would mean my data wasn’t really stored the same way. But I read someone post something about chat gpt and how they use data etc (was a fb post and not even sure if it was accurate), but I am now working myself into a state that I’ve lost control of images of my children on the internet now that I’ve uploaded them on there.

I don’t know how bad this is, or if this is just my anxiety being out of control.

From what I’ve been able to figure out, a lot of data goes to a backup in about a month, and then is gradually written over, but no time frames are given for how long that process takes.

please be kind, I know I’ve been silly.

Even if that were true, what do you think Open AI will do with them?

I’ve done this and not even given it a second thought.

Can anyone really control photos they put on the internet?

I wouldn’t have thought so but happy to be corrected.

It is true that once you add data on AI it then has access to it. DH isn't allowed to use it at work for this reason due to concerns over intellectual property. We also can't use it at work for some things due to GDPR rules.

I don't think photos of your family will be a big draw for them looking for information though, I'm sure lots of people use it for thongs like this.

No once they are out there it's kind of it, which is why I've been much more careful in recent years as to what I share.

I would suspect not.

as i understand it, the data is in their servers, but thats it, because the number of chats ive been asking it im sure it knows almost everything about me,

@JustSilver if you have any other questions ill try to help

If your photos are online then all sorts of people have access to them anyway. Unfortunately there is absolutely no way to keep photos out of ai databases if you have posted them anywhere online. They'll be added to the other billions of images. I wouldn't worry about it, there's nothing we can do about it.

The issue isn't the photos, it's photos + personal informations that help build a comprehensive profile of a person that can be used, sold or hacked.

People put their photos, use chatGPT as a therapist and upload their 23andme DNA test for interpretation, it's just a shit load of identifiable data to give for free to a powerful private company with commercial interests

Hey please dont worry it is fine. They are just photos. Unless you keep your kids locked up at home they are our there in the world and will be on photographs other people have taken that you dont even know about. They're not useful on their own. For identify stealing purposes avoid sharing personal info in the future but let it go. I've done similar and so have millions of other people.