Does a temporary chat in ChatGPT really not get saved anywhere?
Our firm has not approved any AI tool yet, but I know some people in the office use ChatGPT on their own anyway. One of them told me she is fine because she always uses "temporary chat", and "temporary" means nothing is saved. I did not want to argue from instinct, so I am asking here.
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DigiCruncher, "Does a temporary chat in ChatGPT really not get saved anywhere?", https://digicruncher.com/topic/does-a-temporary-chat-in-chatgpt-really-not-get-saved-anywhere/, accessed 2026-11-14.I read the button label and a couple of summaries, which all said roughly "does not appear in your history". That is a statement about what I see on the screen, not about what the vendor holds. I would like to understand what a temporary chat does and does not do: whether it is used for training, whether anything is kept on the vendor's side, and what happens to memory and personalization.
If there is a clear answer from the vendor, I would like to take it to the partners with the exact wording.
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