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The trend of these apps (admittedly, there are worse offenders than these guys) which stress how your data is completely safe, encrypted in transit, not stored on our servers, yours forever...by the way, everything is piped straight into OpenAI is a bit tiring.

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Depending how you pay OpenAI you may be covered by their written pinky swear they aren't retaining, training on, or human-reviewing your data and queries.

Stay on top of it, as the shape of the claims keeps shifting as they adapt their business model, such as with the introduction of the Team billing.

Just want to clarify that OpenAI does not train on the query code and schema info we send via API. It's equivalent to using https://chat.openai.com/ setting "Improve the model for everyone" (previously "Chat history & training") to off in Data Controls.

Is it not an improvement over everything being piped to their servers, stored unencrypted, and saved before/after the OpenAI bit?

It's not everything, but there is a reasonable approach where someone would trust OpenAI much more than $startup.

Probably, if those are the two options. But it still feels disingenuous to lean on the privacy angle as hard as many of them do.

Just call it what it is. We're just a wrapper around gpt4, so the treatment of your data is subject to OpenAI's privacy policies and while we'll try to keep you informed of any changes you should be aware of that major dependency.

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