Is ChatGPT yet another hurdle for data privacy?

There has been significant buzz about ChatGPT over the past couple of months and quite remarkably so considering it was only launched on 30 November 2022. Perhaps of great significance to ChatGPT's meteoric rise has been the fact that it is open for public usage free of charge. This is mainly because the service is still in its research phase, and although that may seem attractive for users, it also means that ChatGPT is collecting a significant amount of data and personal information. ChatGPT is enabled by its language model. A language model is a probability distribution over a sequence of words.