ChatGPT: Difference between revisions

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====Privacy====

A mobile phone number in a friendly country is required to better track your identity.{{Citation needed}}

====User freedom====

Users that do not log in or sign in have a limited access to ChatGPT, being only able to use basic features.{{Citation needed}} After the release of GPT-5, users can no longer select manually the model of ChatGPT they want to use. The platform sets the model automatically and does not show which model is currently in use. {{Citation needed}}

====Data policy====

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===Users' data retention by court mandate (May 2025 - October 2025)===

On May 13, 2025, New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. A court in New York mandated OpenAI to preserve users' conversation logs, including data from deleted conversations and temporary conversations. This affected Free, Plus, Pro and Team subscription tiers and also non Zero-Data-Retention API users. Edu, Enterprise tiers and Zero-Data-Retention API users were exempt from this.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradbury |first=Danny |date=6 Jun 2025 |title=OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats |url=https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/openai-forced-to-preserve-chatgpt-chats |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/gGl4j |archive-date=2026-01-26 |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Malwarebytes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=R |first=Sudha |date=15 Jul 2025 |title=ChatGPT To Retain Conversations Indefinitely |url=https://medium.com/aimonks/court-orders-openai-to-retain-chatgpt-conversations-indefinitely-what-you-need-to-know-1530f24501a6 |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Medium}}</ref>  On September 26, 2025, the preservation order was revoked. However, some deleted and temporary chats will still be monitored for being flagged.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belanger |first=Ashley |date=10 Oct 2025 |title=OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted chats |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/openai-no-longer-forced-to-save-deleted-chats-but-some-users-still-affected/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/fuvb9 |archive-date=2025-10-13 |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>

===GPT-5 release (August 2025)===

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5 and also removed the other available GPT models for non-API users. The next day, several users complained in social media about the performance of the model, claiming it was underwhelming and was "dumber" than the previous model. There also were complaints about the removal of the other GPT models and increased limitations that also affected paid users. Users also realised OpenAI's platform was most of the time setting the lowest-performance GPT-5 models and discovered they can make the platform to set the better-performance models by adding "think harder" in prompts. Altman claimed that a "malfunction" of the autoswitcher caused that problem. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Benj |date=11 Aug 2025 |title=The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-gpt-5-rollout-has-been-a-big-mess/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/RL6ea |archive-date=2025-08-12 |access-date=5 Feb 2026 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>

The outrage from users caused OpenAI to

===Age verification (2026)===

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 ====Privacy====
 A mobile phone number in a friendly country is required to better track your identity.{{Citation needed}}
+====User freedom====
+Users that do not log in or sign in have a limited access to ChatGPT, being only able to use basic features.{{Citation needed}} After the release of GPT-5, users can no longer select manually the model of ChatGPT they want to use. The platform sets the model automatically and does not show which model is currently in use. {{Citation needed}}
 ====Data policy====
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 ===Users' data retention by court mandate (May 2025 - October 2025)===
 On May 13, 2025, New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. A court in New York mandated OpenAI to preserve users' conversation logs, including data from deleted conversations and temporary conversations. This affected Free, Plus, Pro and Team subscription tiers and also non Zero-Data-Retention API users. Edu, Enterprise tiers and Zero-Data-Retention API users were exempt from this.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradbury |first=Danny |date=6 Jun 2025 |title=OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats |url=https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/openai-forced-to-preserve-chatgpt-chats |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/gGl4j |archive-date=2026-01-26 |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Malwarebytes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=R |first=Sudha |date=15 Jul 2025 |title=ChatGPT To Retain Conversations Indefinitely |url=https://medium.com/aimonks/court-orders-openai-to-retain-chatgpt-conversations-indefinitely-what-you-need-to-know-1530f24501a6 |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Medium}}</ref> <!-- < The medium article, archive.today is stuck loading. https://archive.is/wip/Zyy1e. I don't feel like resetting my IA password atm. Just a note to future citers. -raster --> On September 26, 2025, the preservation order was revoked. However, some deleted and temporary chats will still be monitored for being flagged.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Belanger |first=Ashley |date=10 Oct 2025 |title=OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted chats |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/openai-no-longer-forced-to-save-deleted-chats-but-some-users-still-affected/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/fuvb9 |archive-date=2025-10-13 |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>
+===GPT-5 release (August 2025)===
+On August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5 and also removed the other available GPT models for non-API users. The next day, several users complained in social media about the performance of the model, claiming it was underwhelming and was "dumber" than the previous model. There also were complaints about the removal of the other GPT models and increased limitations that also affected paid users. Users also realised OpenAI's platform was most of the time setting the lowest-performance GPT-5 models  and discovered they can make the platform to set the better-performance models by adding "think harder" in prompts. Altman claimed that a "malfunction" of the autoswitcher caused that problem. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Benj |date=11 Aug 2025 |title=The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-gpt-5-rollout-has-been-a-big-mess/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/RL6ea |archive-date=2025-08-12 |access-date=5 Feb 2026 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>
+The outrage from users caused OpenAI to
 ===Age verification (2026)===