How (and when) does your writing show up inside AI chatbots?

How something you publish on the internet ends up in an AI tool, why retrieval is important to understand, and what your options are. Images by Jason Combs & Emily Kelly // the Medium Brand team From the moment ChatGPT debuted in November, 2022 , one of the primary questions we’ve heard from writers on Medium is whether their work was used to train it. But writers don’t just have questions about how training works.