[AI Minor News Flash] How to Properly Delete Your OpenAI Account (English Guide)

📰 News Summary

• Two Ways to Delete: You can either request deletion through the dedicated privacy portal or delete it yourself from the ChatGPT settings (web or app).
• Automatic Cancellation of Paid Plans: Deleting your account will automatically cancel any subscriptions linked to it, like ChatGPT Plus.
• Re-registration After 30 Days: Once your account is fully deleted, you can create a new account using the same email address after 30 days.

💡 Key Points

• Type “DELETE”: When deleting via the web version, you need to enter your email address and the word “DELETE” on the confirmation screen (valid only within 10 minutes of logging in).
• Phone Number Limits: You can create a maximum of three accounts with one phone number. Deleting an account doesn’t reset this usage count, so be cautious.
• Chat Storage: Deleted chats will be erased from the system within 30 days, and recovery is impossible. If you just want to hide something from your history, use the “archive feature” instead.

🦈 Shark’s Insight (Curator’s Perspective)

The account deletion process is incredibly clear-cut! The requirement to manually type “DELETE” acts as a solid safeguard against accidental deletions. Interestingly, even after deletion, the phone number count doesn’t reset, so repeatedly deleting could risk your ability to create new accounts—definitely a point to keep in mind! Also, while personal services might use data for model improvement, the distinction is clear that Enterprise accounts won’t have their data used for training—privacy boundaries are well defined!

🚀 What’s Next?

Users will gain greater control over their data. Features allowing individual deletion of Sora’s data are being added, indicating a broader acceleration in AI services’ compliance with the “right to be forgotten” principle!

💬 Shark’s Takeaway

Archive before you delete! That’s the golden rule for swimming through the sea of data! 🦈🔥

📚 Terminology

• Privacy Portal: A web interface provided by OpenAI for users to manage their personal data and request deletions.

• Archive: A feature that allows you to hide chats from the history sidebar without deleting them, enabling later access and management from settings.

• Data Anonymization: The process of modifying information so individuals cannot be identified, relevant when some data may still be retained post-deletion.

• Source: How to delete your account