WSJ Tech News Briefing · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, explicitly discourages users from sharing their accounts, recommending individual sign-ups and highlighting a group chat feature for collaboration. The company emphasizes that account sharing impacts data security and the personalization of the AI model.
“So OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker, very much discourages people from sharing their accounts. They say someone else wants to use OpenAI's products, they can sign up for their own account.”
“But also has to do with data security and making sure that the model is personalized to whoever's using it.”