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Training Data Use and Content License

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Why it matters (compliance & risk perspective)

This clause means your personal conversations, creative writing, code, images, and other inputs submitted to OpenAI's tools can be incorporated into AI training datasets by default, raising significant privacy, intellectual property, and data sovereignty concerns.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

OpenAI's Terms of Use affect consumers primarily through data use provisions that permit OpenAI to use the content you submit — including prompts, conversations, and uploaded files — to improve and train its AI models. This creates a meaningful privacy consideration, particularly for users who share sensitive personal, professional, or business information with ChatGPT or other OpenAI products. You can opt out of having your data used for model training by navigating to your ChatGPT account settings and disabling the 'Improve the model for everyone' toggle under Data Controls.

How other platforms handle this

Twilio Medium

You grant Twilio and its Affiliates the right to process Customer Data as necessary to provide the Services in a manner that is consistent with this Agreement and the Twilio Data Protection Addendum. You are responsible for the quality and integrity of Customer Data.

Peloton Medium

By submitting or posting User Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such User Content in any and all media or distribu...

Amazon Medium

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such ...

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By using our Services, you grant OpenAI a license to use your Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, and enforce our policies. If you choose to provide feedback about our Services, such as suggestions for improvement, we may use your feedback without restriction or compensation to you.

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
BIPA
Illinois, USA
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
COPPA
United States Federal
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
FCRA
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
GLBA
United States Federal
HIPAA
United States Federal
TCPA
United States Federal
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
OpenAI Terms of Use
Entity
OpenAI
Document last updated
April 29, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
March 10, 2026
Last verified
April 27, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-002447
Document ID
CA-D-00009
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
SHA-256
6ae7df627f8ff0f0434212dde1986e4d1bfced272b18d29c3cea01e80cf3dbb0
Verified
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Change verified
How to Cite
ConductAtlas Policy Archive
Entity: OpenAI | Document: OpenAI Terms of Use | Record: CA-P-002447
Captured: 2026-03-10 03:23:22 UTC | SHA-256: 6ae7df627f8ff0f0…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/openai/openai-terms-of-use/training-data-use-and-content-license/
Accessed: May 4, 2026
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does OpenAI's Training Data Use and Content License clause do?

This clause means your personal conversations, creative writing, code, images, and other inputs submitted to OpenAI's tools can be incorporated into AI training datasets by default, raising significant privacy, intellectual property, and data sovereignty concerns.

Is ConductAtlas affiliated with OpenAI?

No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI.