Comment by runjake

I don’t have any knowledge of what they’re doing exactly and I’m on mobile but if you’re using ChatGPT and it’s not asking for location permissions, it’s probably getting your very rough location from a GeoIP database, or even more roughly, guessing from the passed language string (I.e: en-US).

I wouldn’t be too concerned. And not to be a jerk, but if this is something that concerns you, stop using their product entirely because they’re probably experimenting with way more invasive things like psychological analysis based on your queries.

And stop using the web at large, because they’re doing much creepier things and sharing it with everyone.

Edit: The OpenAI privacy policy says they can collect anything and everything about you and share it with third-parties unrestricted unless it’s unlawful.

https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/