AHow Can You Use ChatGPT's Output?

CHATGPT IS EASY to use, but it's important to understand what you can do with its output and what you cannot.

The brief version is:

  • You can use the output for any purpose.

But:

  • The output may not be unique to you.
  • You do not hold the copyright for the output.
  • You may not claim the output was human-generated.

The following sections explain these points.

You Can Use ChatGPT's Output for Any Purpose

In OpenAI's terms, you provide Input to ChatGPT, and it returns Output to you, creating Content. Here's what those terms mean:

  • Input. This is what you provide to the Services supplied by OpenAI, L.L.C. and its affiliates. For ChatGPT, the input is your text prompts. OpenAI assumes that you own this input.
  • Output. This is what OpenAI's services generate and return in response to your input. For ChatGPT, the output is text content. (For OpenAI's DALL-E image generator, the output is images.)
  • Content. This is your input and the service's output together. For ChatGPT, the content is your prompts and ChatGPT's responses.

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