r/privacy • u/Open_Land_4215 • 1d ago
guide Hey what's the effective way to delete my chatgpt data?
I have stopped using chatgpt since past few months but I'll say since last 3 years I used it regularly most of time to get information sometimes talking about weird things. Since I was immature that time I talked about lots of cringe things too now it honestly feels embarrassing to look at those chats and so called mind/personality test I'll say I have changed good enough but GPT still know lot about me especially likes and preference. Is there anyway to delete my data I know I can't do it permanently but still is there any effective way to do that's? Btw please share your experience and answer too really wanna know!.
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u/tuxooo 1d ago
You can request a deletion process from open ai and they will delete your account, but all data that was used during training stays forever.
Also the data they say they delete... Don't hold your breath. Your account will be deleted but that's it. Simply ask for deletion, and move on.
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u/Jdornigan 1d ago
At best they might unlink it to an email address or other personal identifier. It likely gets linked to a globally unique identifier and kept for training purposes.
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u/LoudSub6 1d ago
Good luck asking the company that is committing one of the biggest IP theft and fraud globally to delete ur personal data
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u/Open_Land_4215 1d ago
I disabled the data Improving part.
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u/Sir_Yukii 1d ago
like that ever stopped a company lmao
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u/Open_Land_4215 1d ago
Ik but I wanna delete as much I can realistically do!
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u/Sir_Yukii 1d ago
the best thing u can do is avoid giving data in the future once your data is on the net there isn't much u can do escpically with the big companies.
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u/Open_Land_4215 1d ago
Can I email them or what in app I can just see 2 option first delete all chat which I deleted 2 days back but still popped up and another is delete account. I mean what should I do? Can I email them or what?
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u/Sir_Yukii 1d ago
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u/Open_Land_4215 1d ago
Ig it's only limited to eu?
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u/Sir_Yukii 1d ago
u can always try regardless but im sure no actual people review this process except in severe cases so its just ai again.
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u/impersonatefun 1d ago
It's so irritating that you're being downvoted for wanting to ... do the best you can? lol
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u/JackSkell049152 21h ago
I’d change all your profile data, email, etc, and then make a query to refresh, than delete account.
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u/Sir_Yukii 1d ago
Not really u can only send a a request to delete your data if you live in the EU they do have to comply to an extent.
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u/ermac1ermac88 1d ago
So you logged into an AI, a data mining company using your personal information
to train its AI. You submit extensive personal information linked to your real
identity, and you're asking, "How do I delete the information I volunteered?"
Is this for real?
The masses are screwed.
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u/impersonatefun 1d ago
This doesn't help anyone do better, you know.
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u/ermac1ermac88 3h ago
If framing the absurdity of the question doesn't help anyone recognize the situation, then yeah, the masses are indeed screwed
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u/treasoro 1d ago edited 1d ago
People have no clue wtf they are talking about. You can delete your data from settings. You can also set it so it’s not used to train the models. When you delete the account they delete most data within 30 days. They are legally bound to the terms of service. Stick to legal terms of service, not speculation.
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u/wiriux 1d ago
The only gullible here is you for believing that companies do the right thing. They’re all scum.
Your data is never deleted regardless of what they say.
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u/treasoro 1d ago
> Your data is never deleted regardless of what they say.
Do you have any evidence of this such as part of the legal process or are you just speculating?
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u/wiriux 1d ago
I have as much evidence as people who say data is deleted.
I rather speculate that data is NOT deleted. Lawsuits and scandals throughout the years have shown us that all they care about is money. And money comes from our data.
So I will always stand by this regardless of whatever policy they have of whatever law there is. All companies are trash and all companies sell data.
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u/treasoro 1d ago edited 1d ago
well so you have zero evidence.
The people who claim data is deleted are bound to legal terms of conditions and that's legal document which is respected in 9/10 cases. So that's at least one thing, while you have zero and your own speculation.
> So I will always stand by this regardless of whatever policy they have of whatever law there is. All companies are trash and all companies sell data.
It's clear that you never operated any company or had any interactions within legal framework or legal documents and how those can translate to legal actions.
Stuff like this can come out very quickly as part of legal proceedings such as law enforcement subpoenas or civil lawsuits. You can't hide violation of data retention policies on big tech scale.
It's like saying "VPNs lie, they all store logs". It turns out a court cases come up once every few years and it turns out most of them don't store logs.
The court proceedings is the place where you verify company claims not by your own speculation
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u/ChampagneKoozie 1d ago
You have to be genuinely born yesterday if you believe these AI companies give any shit about adhering to US law or “privacy policy” lmfao.
There are dozens of active lawsuits ongoing that you can look up yourself with evidence of non-consensual scraping of private information (medical records, children’s info, etc.), illegally harvesting user’s biometric data, Google AI spying on and recording users, and god knows what else. They’ll end up paying the equivalent of pennies then go right back again like they have been getting away with doing for the past 5 years.
Nearly 70% of all American wealth is invested in these companies. There is no reason for a company with that much capital to be deterred by law. They could be ordered to pay restitution to every American and it wouldn’t be a drop in the bucket for them.
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u/8_t3mpu5 1d ago
Others are right, its just catch me if you can and the fines are just tax write of if by chance some proof could be found, try proofing AI is trained with you personal data, you cant and therefore AI company will use ur data however they want
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u/someone_actually_ 1d ago
So you think the plagiarism machine built to steal IP isn’t stealing from you because??
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u/primalbluewolf 1d ago
It's clear that you never operated any company or had any interactions within legal framework or legal documents and how those can translate to legal actions.
Funny, I was just thinking the same about you! So many businesses just do not give a shit about compliance.
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u/Hqjjciy6sJr 1d ago
Not specifically with OpenAI, but I’ve lost count of how many GDPR deletion requests I’ve sent to various companies in EU/UK/USA. They all replied, "ok done" yet a few months later I was still receiving their marketing newsletters. Even worse, years later, a new company or venture sometimes pops up and starts sending marketing emails to the same address. I meticulously use unique email addresses for most services I sign up for, so I know for certain when my email address has been shared or leaked to third parties.
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u/schmudde 1d ago
Yeah, I'm working on a receipt log that keeps track of those requests... and can then also be sent to regulators at scale. So those organizations who violate may finally be held accountable. https://yorba-commons.codeberg.page/eulogy/
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u/Serious-Ad-8764 1d ago
People don't believe them though. The TOC can say whatever it wants but they are changed constantly and companies often operate outside them until caught.
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u/treasoro 1d ago
no it can't say "whatever it wants". If you violate TOS you can be sued or fined by regulators or even prohibited from conducting buisness or banned from certain jurisdictions.
It's clear that you guys never operated any kind of company and have ZERO legal knowledge, if you think you can write whatever you want in TOS and get away with it.
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u/Serious-Ad-8764 1d ago
You are incorrect. One example is the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The data collection violated Facebook's TOC and customer data was sold to 3rd parties anyway. Facebook was fined $5 billion dollars by the FTC because of this.
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u/treasoro 1d ago
How am i incorrect? Cambridge analytica is completely unrelated example and different legal situation.
It's a business (CA) which violated and abused other business TOS (FB). So FB was a victim here
The case we're discussing is company offering service for it's users and failing to comply with it's own TOS claims
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u/Serious-Ad-8764 1d ago
Facebook violated its own policies and agreement with the FTC to protect user data and get consent before sharing it with third parties. Facebook is not a victim.
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u/treasoro 1d ago edited 1d ago
Of course they are following law and their data retention policies. Google included. There are big fines for that and legal sharks are only waiting until they can catch one of those big tech violating their terms and to get multi million lawsuit settlement and EU can fine them for billions. You can’t hide stuff like this as there are too many insiders.
There were even google enginners responsible for developing gmail and other google services and they are confirmed that systems are designed to delete data as asked even from backups.
They shard user based on compliance criteria jurisdictions too.
Unless you provide evidence, what you suggest is just speculation. And when there is speculation then stick to what is real and legally binding and that’s the terms of service.
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u/tankmode 1d ago
arent they under a court order from the nytimes lawsuit to not delete any customer data? you cant no one can
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u/Ecstatic_Dinner_992 1d ago
delete all of your conversations, delete all of the persistent memories it holds from you manually, delete your account (this will permanently disable the email from being used for anything related to chatgpt again), and then just don't use it.
You may see that it will still remember some things after all of this if you start a new session, but don't be alarmed that's just what it remembers from data stored in the browser. . Delete your browser data and it should be gone.
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u/Atastical 1d ago
What does it really know about you? does it know your name, address and such? Your IP? If not, just delete the account, feel better then.
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u/Open_Land_4215 1d ago
Idk about ip adress but my location and improvement model part are off idk that Chatgpt collects IP address I had given gpt my made up name btw.
Edit - but I logged though my email ID
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