[whilenot-dev]

Privacy in that example would be if no party except you and your friends can access the contents of this interaction. I wouldn't want neither Apple nor my ISP to have that access.

A company like OpenAI that offers a SaaS is no such friend, and in such power dynamics (individual VS company) it's probably in your best interest to have everything public if necessary.

[lxgr]

You're always free to keep records of your ChatGPT conversations on your end.

Why tangle the data of people with very different preferences than yours up in that?