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  • Location 4 findings
  • Contacts 4 findings
  • Messages 3 findings
  • Sensitive Data 5 findings
  • Tracking 2 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 6 findings
  • Sharing 9 findings
  • Controls & Permissions 13 findings
  • Other 15 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 15 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Other Privacy control available OpenAI may use the content you provide to train the models behind ChatGPT

What this means

Content users provide may be used to train the models that power ChatGPT.

OpenAI may use content users provide to train the models that power ChatGPT.

Why this matters

Whether your conversations become training material is the question most people have about an AI assistant, and this answers it.

What the policy says

As noted above, we may use Content you provide us to improve our Services, for example to train the models that power ChatGPT.

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Advertising & Profiling OpenAI uses your content to train its models, subject to your control

What this means

User content is used to train OpenAI's models, and the policy states this is subject to a control the user holds.

OpenAI uses user content to train its models, subject to user control.

Why this matters

It says both halves plainly: the practice, and that there is a setting attached to it.

What the policy says

Improve and develop our Services and conduct research, including using your Content to train our models (subject to your control)

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Messages Temporary Chats are deleted within 30 days unless kept for safety or legal reasons

What this means

Temporary Chats are automatically deleted within 30 days, unless OpenAI must retain them for safety or legal reasons.

Temporary Chats are automatically deleted within 30 days unless OpenAI must retain them for safety or legal reasons.

Why this matters

It gives a concrete floor: a temporary chat is not immediately gone, and the exceptions are stated.

What the policy says

For example, Temporary Chats (opens in a new window) will be automatically deleted within 30 days (unless we have to retain them for safety or legal reasons, as described further below), and your Atlas incognito browsing history (opens in a new window) won’t be saved after you end your session.

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12 more key findings a free account opens, by topic

  • Advertising & Profiling 3
  • Location 2
  • Other 2
  • Sensitive Data 2
  • Contacts 1
  • Controls & Permissions 1
  • Sharing 1

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A free account opens all 15 key findings. 46 additional reviewed findings are available in the complete report.

  • Location 2 more
  • Contacts 3 more
  • Messages 2 more
  • Sensitive Data 3 more
  • Tracking 2 more
  • Advertising & Profiling 2 more
  • Sharing 8 more
  • Controls & Permissions 12 more
  • Other 12 more

  • Complete report

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