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What dots does with your messages

Source: OpenAI's safety, security and privacy write-up for dots, read 2026-10-01. Its words are quoted, never paraphrased.

Whose hands it passes through

Somebody carries the message, somebody runs the model that reads it, and where the agent uses a website on your behalf somebody operates that browser. A blank below is not an absence of a company, it is a company nobody has named.

  1. You, onSlack, Web, Voice
  2. The productOpenAI
  3. Carries the messagesNot named26 of the 78 agents with a policy do
  4. Runs the modelOpenAI
  5. Drives the browserRuns its own
  6. Holds it, under whose lawNot stated52 of the 78 agents with a policy do

Every link read off the product’s own published pages. Across the 78 policies in this directory, 3 name all four, and 13 name none of them.

In its own words

“For personal ChatGPT plans, you control whether your dots’ conversations and the work they carry out are used to improve our models, through your “Improve the model for everyone” setting.”
On training, Qualified statement

Quotes are verbatim. We report what the document says and link it; we do not interpret its legal effect, and policies change.

What it does not answer

Each of these is a question some policies in this directory answer. The count is how many of the 78 we have read close it.

Silence is not a denial and it is not a promise. A document that does not address the people in your group thread has not agreed to anything about them.

How old this document is

The document carries no revision date. 70 of the 78 policies here carry one and 8 do not, and without one there is no way to tell whether this describes the product as it ships today.

We started keeping a dated copy of this document on 2026-10-01. A policy that is quietly rewritten leaves nothing behind, so from here any change to it is recorded with the date it appeared.

Who else answers this the same way

The products that gave the same answer, each on a page like this one.

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