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Is it safe to paste confidential contracts into ChatGPT?

Not on a consumer plan: Free, Go, Plus and Pro chats can train models unless you opt out, and in United States v. Heppner a US court held a defendant's chats with the public version of Claude were not privileged. Use a business or enterprise plan (or the API), which keeps data out of training by default, strip names and numbers first, or use a legal tool with contractual zero data retention. Assume anything you paste could be read back to you in discovery, and treat NDA-covered documents accordingly.

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On the AI map, 29 October 2026 Legal and contracts

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