OpenAI Data Privacy

Users debate whether OpenAI uses prompts, chats, and proprietary data from their API or ChatGPT for training models, questioning enterprise plans, privacy policies, and data retention practices.

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croes May 2, 2023 View on HN

Because OpenAI's product is a Chatbot. If somehow your data becomes part of the model, everyone can ask for it.

l33tman Mar 20, 2023 View on HN

You are aware that openai explicitly says they send the prompts and answers to affiliated parties that read them and rate them to put them back into their reinforcement learning database?

flerchin May 22, 2023 View on HN

How are we doing this without uploading company proprietary to OpenAI to use however they want?

galenmarchetti Oct 2, 2025 View on HN

we're using OpenAI's API for business. they don't train on data sent to the business api, unlike the consumer tierthis is still an early beta, so at the moment everything is only available with OpenAI's API. however, for people who want to use it in a higher security environment, we'll support switching OpenAI with any hosted model API including on-premise or models held in private VPCs. that way people can manage their data with no exfiltration to a third party

mrgaro Dec 6, 2024 View on HN

OpenAi enterprise plan especially says that they do not train their models with your data. It's in the contract agreement and it's also visible on the bottom of every chatgpt prompt window.

dkarras Feb 23, 2024 View on HN

how is it "chat over private data" if you are exposing my data to more parties like openai? I thought you were using a stack of self hosted open weight LLMs etc. If I can send it elsewhere, it is not private data.

relyks Feb 8, 2025 View on HN

Why wouldn't it be? OpenAI and Anthropic keep everyone's prompts and use them for training too

nik736 Sep 18, 2024 View on HN

How is it more privacy respecting when it's sending stuff to OpenAI servers?

jsnell Jul 17, 2025 View on HN

Your data is not being used to train an LLM even if you click "yes" to this.

piyuv May 30, 2024 View on HN

Maybe he doesn’t want LLM bots training on his data /s