How to audit what ChatGPT knows about you - and reclaim your data privacy
Summary
A guide on using OpenAI's privacy settings to export data, disable chat history, and opt out of model training to protect personal information.
Key quotes
By default, ChatGPT saves every message you send and uses those conversations to improve its models.
The default should be privacy. Making users hunt for these controls is a dark pattern that serves the company, not the user.
The article explains the mechanisms OpenAI uses to store user data and the specific settings users can adjust to limit this collection. It contrasts consumer privacy controls with stronger guarantees provided to enterprise customers.