Microsoft scraps Copilot Pro GPT Builder and removes all user data [Video]

Did you use the GPT Builder in Microsoft’s AI-based Copilot Pro? If so, you may have noticed the feature is gone now, at least for consumers.

Microsoft permanently squashed the tool on July 10 and removed all GPTs — those created by the company and its customers — from July 10 through July 14. In a nod toward privacy, any data associated with or collected by the GPTs should also have been removed.

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In June, Microsoft announced that it was retiring the GPT Builder as part of its Copilot Pro subscription.

Launched just four months ago in mid-March, Copilot’s GPT Builder worked similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT PlusGPT Builder. Both tools let you create your own custom GPT chatbots to use yourself or share with others. Creating your own task-specific chatbot this way requires no coding skills or knowledge, as the tool talks …