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Topic covering how consumer AI assistants collect, store, and use user conversations, including memory, ad targeting, and legal discoverability.
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT ads to eligible Free and Go users in selected regions, matched in part to the current conversation. A work prompt typed into a personal free account falls inside that matching, though OpenAI says advertisers do not receive chats.
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Meta will take a commission on purchases made through its Muse agent, which Quartz reported drew more than 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks without giving any purchase counts. Walmart, Sephora, Expedia and Shopify are partners.
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Muse can open a browser and click buy, but the credential at checkout is Link built by Stripe, and the only money Meta has put a price on is a $20 and $100 monthly subscription rather than a cut of what the agent spends.
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Wired's walkthrough of the memory settings shows ChatGPT deciding for itself what to store about you and carrying it into every reply. Run one prompt on two accounts and you are running two different tests.
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Washington Post reporters found chatbot transcripts cited in 12 court cases in two years. The disclosure numbers behind those cases put employee prompts in a third-party evidence store your retention policy does not reach.
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