I’m beginning to suspect that one of the most common misconceptions about LLMs such as ChatGPT involves how “training” works. A common complaint I see about these tools is that people don’t want to even try them out because they don’t want to contribute to their training data. This is by no means an irrational position to take, but it does often correspond to an incorrect mental model about how these tools work.

Short version: ChatGPT and other similar tools do not directly learn from and memorize everything that you say to them.