OpenAI Service Terms

These terms set out the rules for using OpenAI's services, including what OpenAI will and won't cover if you or your business face a legal claim over AI-generated content. Key things that affect most users: if you share a GPT you've built, OpenAI gets a permanent, royalty-free license to use and distribute it; if you connect a third-party App, your data is sent to that App and governed by its own terms, not OpenAI's; and OpenAI can remove any GPT at any time without notice or explanation.

The OpenAI Service Terms establish the substantive rights, obligations, and restrictions governing customer and end-user access to OpenAI's services, including API access, Enterprise tiers, GPT creation and sharing, Beta Services, and specialized products such as ChatGPT for Healthcare and ChatGPT Voice. OpenAI provides qualified indemnification to API and Enterprise customers for third-party intellectual property claims arising from Output, with that indemnity excluded where the customer or end users had actual or constructive knowledge of infringement and excluded entirely for Beta Services, which are offered on an as-is basis without indemnification. Users who share GPTs grant OpenAI a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license covering use, modification, distribution, and promotion of those GPTs. The terms impose categorical restrictions on certain uses of Visual Capabilities, ChatGPT for Healthcare, and ChatGPT Voice Output, and authorize automatic transmission of App Data to third-party Applications upon a user's enabling of the App, after which the receiving Application's own terms govern that data. OpenAI retains sole discretion to reject or remove any GPT from its services at any time for any reason without notice.

For an individual user, this document means that certain high-risk uses are flatly prohibited — you cannot use Visual Capabilities to identify people or infer private information about them, reproduce anyone's likeness without their express consent, or use ChatGPT for Healthcare as a primary basis for clinical decisions or to analyze medical images and diagnostic signals. If you share a GPT, OpenAI permanently holds a broad, royalty-free license to it and may remove it at any time without notice. When you enable a third-party App, your App Data is automatically transmitted to that Application and governed by its terms rather than OpenAI's — reviewing that Application's own terms before enabling it is the concrete action the document makes relevant.