We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services or close your account if: we determine that you have violated these Terms or our policies; we need to do so to comply with law; or we determine it is necessary to protect our or others' interests, with or without notice to you.
If you rely on ChatGPT for work or creative projects, your account — and all associated data and customizations — could be terminated with limited notice and no guaranteed right of appeal, leaving you without recourse.
OpenAI's Terms of Use give the company a broad license to use content you submit — including your conversations with ChatGPT — to train and improve its AI models, which means your personal inputs could influence future AI behavior at scale. The mandatory arbitration clause and class action waiver significantly limit your ability to seek collective legal remedies if something goes wrong, a provision that may surprise many everyday users. You can opt out of having your data used for model training by going to Settings > Data Controls in your ChatGPT account and disabling 'Improve the model for everyone.'