(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

Privacy experts are already sounding the alarm about the potential harms of saying too much to your chatbot. The underlying concern is that no one is entirely sure how your personal information, whether sensitive or seemingly innocuous, could be used in the future. Some fear personal data could end up in a mass surveillance system or be used in other unforeseen ways that will ultimately harm or disadvantage you.

Here are five ways you can better manage the amount of personal information ChatGPT has about you, if you're using a consumer account.

One step you can take to make your ChatGPT experience more secure is to stop OpenAI from using your information to train its models. Security experts are voicing concern that if your data ends up in a model, it could one day be used in a way we can't even anticipate right now.