[new privacy option for ChatGPT allows users to choose whether conversation records are used for ChatGPT training] OpenAI launched a new control on Tuesday that allows ChatGPT users to close their chat logs. Any conversations that occur when chat logs are disabled will not be used to train OpenAI's model and will not appear in the History sidebar, the company wrote in a blog post. Last month, a loophole in ChatGPT gave users brief access to other people's conversations, raising doubts about whether the chat robot could protect users' privacy. "We hope this will provide an easier way to manage your data than our existing opt-out process," OpenAI wrote in the post. " The company added that users can change their chat log settings at any time.