OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing for Zero Data Retention customers

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing, a new system designed to strengthen safeguards for eligible API customers using Zero Data Retention while keeping customer content inaccessible to OpenAI personnel. Under Zero Data Retention, OpenAI does not retain eligible customers’ prompts or model responses after a request is processed. Enterprise customer data is also not used to train OpenAI models unless customers explicitly opt in. Private Safety Processing expands existing safeguards by allowing automated systems to identify potentially harmful patterns across related interactions rather than evaluating each request in isolation. For Zero Data Retention deployments, customer content remains on infrastructure controlled by the customer. OpenAI is also developing an option where content can be stored on its infrastructure while encrypted with keys controlled by the customer. OpenAI personnel would not have access to those encryption keys or the underlying customer content. When the system identifies potential misuse, OpenAI receives a limited signal describing the category and severity of the activity. The underlying prompts and responses are not shared with OpenAI personnel, i...