ChatGPT has taken the world by storm

Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users

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The problem is it's fuelled by our personal data

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The data collection used to train ChatGPT is problematic for several reasons.

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OpenAI has also just announced ChatGPT Plus, a paid subscription plan recently

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