I’m struggling to understand how this all works with user data privacy & retention:
If I use a third-party website, such as DeepAI.org’s Free ChatGPT or TalkAI.info’s ChatGPT (which supposedly runs off of OpenAI’s language models) and I enter prompts into their chatbot, can the developer of that website see my prompts?
Can they use my prompt data for model training OR fine-tuning any models? How long can developers of third-party ChatGPT websites keep my prompt data (is it kept for 30 days and deleted or not)?
If they don’t use my prompt data for model training and/or fine-tuning, why can they retain it (if they can)?
I just want to know if my data is at significant risk of being compromised or used or not 
Hello again James,
these websites are probably using the OpenAI API which means that they can see prompts of anyone.
I can’t provide info whether or not they store the data or use it for training but I would always assume so, no matter the company.
They probably don’t have the same policies as OpenAI (which run ChatGPT) → The websites above are NOT ChatGPT, they just use the OpenAI API, which are two seperate things.
Do not share any sensitive data with any company in the first place if you’re worried about it becoming public.
I hope this helps! 
Taking a look at DeepAI’s TOS:
Third Party Materials
- Our Services may rely on or interoperate with third-party products and services, including, without limitation, data storage services, communications technologies, IoT platforms, and internet and mobile operators (collectively, “Third-Party Materials”).
Meaning they probably collect the data, train on it, sell it, whatever you can think of.
This is just an example and other websites might have similar policies.
Just because a website looks and acts like ChatGPT doesn’t mean that it actually is!
Check the terms of service before you use a service.
Cheers. 
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