Is ChatGPT safe for work?
Low risk · 14OpenAI · AI assistants · facts (high-confidence)
ChatGPT is low-risk for default at-work use (14/100): it trains on your data unless you opt out, and holds SOC 2 Type II.
14
Low risk
Watch out: Consumer/free ChatGPT uses your chats for training unless you proactively disable it, so staff pasting work data into personal accounts can leak it into model improvement.
Data and compliance facts
- Trains on consumer-tier data
- Opt-out
- Trains on business-tier data
- No
- Training opt-out available
- Yes
- SOC 2 Type II
- Yes
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- ISO 42001 (AI management)
- Yes
- GDPR Data Processing Addendum
- Yes
- HIPAA BAA
- Yes
- EU data residency
- Yes
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Data retention
- Consumer chats retained until deleted (~30 days after deletion); ChatGPT Enterprise/Team customer-configurable retention; API logs default ~30 days and Zero Data Retention available for eligible API endpoints/in-region projects.
- Safer tier
- ChatGPT Enterprise
Why it scores 14 out of 100
- +14Trains on your data unless you opt out. Training is on by default on the consumer tier; you must find and toggle the opt-out.