Krux
May 10, 2026
OpenAI: Your ChatGPT Chats Vanish After 30 Days
Published: May 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Updated: May 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
100-word summary
OpenAI released a policy guide detailing how ChatGPT handles user data. The surprise: all conversations are deleted after 30 days, kept only for safety monitoring. Business users get stronger protections. Their chats never train models by default. Personal users can flip a "do not train on my content" switch in settings, and new conversations stay out of the training pool. There's also Temporary Chat mode, which skips your history entirely but still gets the 30-day safety window. OpenAI runs a Privacy Filter to scrub personal information before any conversation touches training data. The catch? This is OpenAI explaining its own policies, not an outside audit.
What happened
OpenAI released a policy guide detailing how ChatGPT handles user data. The surprise: all conversations are deleted after 30 days, kept only for safety monitoring. Business users get stronger protections. Their chats never train models by default. Personal users can flip a "do not train on my content" switch in settings, and new conversations stay out of the training pool. There's also Temporary Chat mode, which skips your history entirely but still gets the 30-day safety window. OpenAI runs a Privacy Filter to scrub personal information before any conversation touches training data. The catch?
Why it matters
This is OpenAI explaining its own policies, not an outside audit.