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OpenAI ChatGPT (Consumer & Free Plans)

Critical Rating 1 / 5 · Critical — Active surveillance / serious risk.

Claim evaluated

By default, OpenAI's consumer-facing ChatGPT and Plus accounts actively utilize user chats, uploaded files, and personal inputs to train future models. Unless a user manually navigates to settings to explicitly opt out, sensitive data is permanently processed on cloud servers and

Analysis

By default, OpenAI's consumer-facing ChatGPT and Plus accounts actively utilize user chats, uploaded files, and personal inputs to train future models. Unless a user manually navigates to settings to explicitly opt out, sensitive data is permanently processed on cloud servers and integrated into third-party datasets. Additionally, conversations are retained on OpenAI's servers for up to 30 days even with history disabled, representing a persistent risk of intellectual property exposure.

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Rating IDark_intel_631a1a51

SubjectOpenAI ChatGPT (Consumer & Free Plans)

CategoryAI Platform

VerdictThreat — red

Beacon stateCritical

Analyzed2026-06-05

AnalystHecTec Labs · Embassy reconnaissance (Gemini grounded search)

ApprovalManual review · YubiKey + steward (Citadel)

Data basisPublicly reported information only

Claim framingOpinion based on cited sources, not a statement of intent

Ingest originlocal_embassy

Citadel signaturesecp256k1_m4_sig_fd3c8a7ff7859a206f20aa720dd68cb8

MethodologySovereignware™ methodology v1.0

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