Is It Safe to Use ChatGPT for Confidential Work?
Blog post from Venice
Free-tier ChatGPT is presented as a weak default for confidential contracts, customer information, and unpublished code because OpenAI may use conversations for model training unless users opt out, while opting out does not prevent OpenAI from processing or retaining account-linked chats. The text distinguishes training controls, storage practices, transport encryption, end-to-end encryption, and hardware-isolated trusted execution environments, arguing that users should evaluate who receives prompts, whether they are stored, and whether they may be used for training. It recommends disabling ChatGPT training, redacting identifiers, limiting excerpts, and separating work and personal usage for lower-risk cases. It compares ChatGPT with Claude’s consumer retention and training choices, Anthropic’s commercial API policy, OpenRouter’s default prompt-storage policy, and Venice’s claimed private, TEE, and E2EE modes, while noting that third-party model providers may still receive prompts and that compliance requirements can limit suitable options. Overall, it advises using consumer chatbots for public or approved material and selecting services with explicit no-training and storage protections when original confidential documents must be analyzed.
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