Article last updated on:
November 21, 2023
Wondering how old ChatGPT‘s data is?
In this guide, we’ll answer all of your questions on this topic.
Let’s go!
Key Factors: Data in ChatGPT
| ChatGPT Data | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Data Cutoff | January 2022 |
| Why Not Current | Update Lag |
| Data Size | 570GB of Text |
| Data Sources | Web Pages, Books, etc. |
All about ChatGPT’s data
- Latest data comes from: January 2022
- Why not current data: It takes time to gather, clean, and train data. So there’s a time lag between real-world events and updates to my database.
- How much trained data: ChatGPT is trained on ~570GB of text data.
- Where ChatGPT gets its from: A large dataset that includes text from websites, books, Wikipedia, and other sources.
- Note how ChatGPT say it doesn’t collect private data.
- However, that’s not always the case.
- We went in-depth on this in our guide answering if ChatGPT is safe to use.
Other web pages say ChatGPT’s most recent data is from 2021.
However, that’s wrong — these guides are outdated by now.
Relevant read: How to train your ChatGPT
Conclusion
We always update our guide whenever new versions come out.
Hope you learned something new in this guide!
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Thank you for reading this,
Ch David and Daniel
