While OpenAI gives you rights to the content it generates for you, the legal status of AI-generated content remains uncertain — copyright offices in multiple jurisdictions have held that AI-generated works without sufficient human authorship are not copyrightable.
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.'