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You can now protect your ChatGPT account with a special USB-key

Digital Trends·Shimul Sood·6 months ago
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If you’ve ever worried about someone getting into your ChatGPT account , ChatGPT account, OpenAI has finally introduced something worth paying attention to.

The company has rolled out a new opt-in feature called Advanced Account Security, and it is exactly what it sounds like. You can now lock down your account using a physical security key, which is now available to regular ChatGPT users .

What happens when you turn it on

The feature bundles several protections together rather than making you hunt through settings menus. Password-based login is disabled entirely and replaced by passkeys or physical security keys. Session lengths get shorter, so a stolen login can’t be used indefinitely. You get alerts when someone signs into your account. And conversations from enrolled accounts are automatically excluded from model training — no need to dig around for that toggle separately.

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The account recovery side is where things get serious.…

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