Children who bypass the age gate and use ChatGPT could have their conversations — potentially including sensitive school, health, or personal disclosures — collected and processed without parental knowledge or COPPA-required consent.
OpenAI collects a wide range of personal data including your conversation content, device identifiers, location, and information from third-party sources, and may use this data to train its AI models. Users who do not opt out may have their personal conversations — including sensitive topics discussed with ChatGPT — incorporated into future model training. You can opt out of model training by going to your ChatGPT account Settings > Data Controls and disabling 'Improve the model for everyone.'
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