People should not have to stitch together five policy pages to get one answer.
Choose a product and generate a calm, useful ask: support email, public post, or procurement questions. The point is clearer answers, not louder theatre.
Email or support ticket
For people who want a calm, serious answer from the provider.
Hello OpenAI team,
I am trying to understand the public data-use posture for OpenAI API Platform.
Could you publish or point me to one plain-language disclosure that clearly states:
- whether prompts, files, chats, or other user content are used to train or improve AI models
- whether the answer depends on user or administrator settings
- how to opt out where applicable
- what is said about retention and human review
The Production AI Institute's AI Data Use Index currently records the public answer as: "OpenAI says data sent to the API is not used to train or improve OpenAI models unless the organisation explicitly opts in to share data."
A clearer single disclosure would help users, buyers, and reviewers understand the product without stitching together multiple policy pages.
Thank you.
Public post
For people who want to ask in public without sounding unserious.
I want a clearer public answer from OpenAI about how OpenAI API Platform uses people's data for AI training, opt-outs, retention, and human review.
Current public summary from the PAI AI Data Use Index:
"OpenAI says data sent to the API is not used to train or improve OpenAI models unless the organisation explicitly opts in to share data."
People should not have to guess.
https://www.productionai.institute/ai-data-use/openai-api
Buyer questions
For organisations that need procurement-grade clarity before approval.
Ask OpenAI to answer these questions for OpenAI API Platform:
1. What exact customer or user data categories may be used to train or improve AI models?
2. Which defaults apply by plan, region, or account type?
3. Which settings change the answer, and who controls them?
4. What retention applies to prompts, files, outputs, and metadata?
5. When can humans review the content?
6. Where is the single public disclosure a buyer can rely on?
PAI reference: https://www.productionai.institute/ai-data-use/openai-api