Also, within a few hours of posting this, I received this odd email from “ privacy@openai.com” to the gmail address connected to my chatgpt account. I made no such request to them.

“Hi there,

Thank you for your message. To protect user privacy and for security reasons, we can only act on privacy requests once we have sufficiently verified account ownership. For this reason, please contact us directly from the email address linked to your account.

If you no longer have access to that email address, please let us know.

Best regards, John OpenAI Privacy Team”