Midjourney vs ChatGPT

Midjourney can use, modify, sublicense, and distribute your prompts and generated assets forever, even after you leave. That means your content may be reused for service, product, or downstream purposes without additional payment or permission.

Content you post is publicly viewable and remixable unless you use the limited Stealth feature. In shared spaces like Discord, other people can still see your creations regardless of Stealth.

Disputes must go to binding arbitration in Santa Clara County, and you waive the right to a jury trial. This can make it harder and more expensive to bring claims in court.

Midjourney can update the agreement and keep the service terms changing over time, with continued use treated as acceptance. If you disagree, your only real option is to stop using the service.

The company can suspend or ban access at any time and for any reason. That creates a significant account-risk if your work depends on continuous access.

Midjourney says it uses third-party processors and does not store your credit card information, only confirmation that payment was made. That reduces the amount of sensitive payment data kept directly by Midjourney.

Midjourney says it may use analytics and advertising partners and advertising cookies to deliver more relevant ads. Users can opt out of certain sharing in privacy settings, but the default collection/sharing posture is still fairly broad.

The service collects prompts, uploaded content, IP address, cookies, usage data, and contact details. For an AI tool, that means the things you type and upload may become part of the service’s retained personal data footprint.

Personal data is kept as long as needed for the stated purposes, legal compliance, disputes, and enforcement. In practice, that means information may linger well beyond account use if Midjourney decides it is needed for legal or policy reasons.

EEA, UK, Swiss, and California users have access, correction, deletion, portability, and some objection/opt-out rights. The practical upside is a usable account-based path to request account/data deletion.

The policy gives a concrete path to delete your account and data through the account page, and says survey data can also be accessed and deleted. That makes rights requests more actionable than vague contact-only promises.

OpenAI can use your content worldwide to provide, maintain, develop, improve, and secure the services, plus enforce terms. For users, this is a wide license covering very broad operational uses.

If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, the terms let either side go to local courts instead of forcing arbitration. That preserves a user’s ability to sue in court.

The privacy policy says you can delete chats or your account and export your history and data. That makes it easier to leave or clean up your data than with many services.

The policy expressly lists access, deletion, correction, portability, restriction, consent-withdrawal, and complaint rights. Users also get instructions for submitting requests.

The privacy policy says some content may be used to improve services and train models unless you opt out. That means chats and uploads may contribute to model development by default in some cases.

OpenAI shares personal data with vendors, affiliates, business account administrators, and sometimes government authorities or other third parties. Users should expect their data to leave the service in multiple scenarios.

Deleted data may still be kept for up to 30 days, and longer for legal, security, fraud, or accounting reasons. So deletion is not always immediate or absolute.

OpenAI says it may use your content to train models, but you can opt out in account settings. That gives users some control over whether their chats help improve the system.

Paid subscriptions renew automatically until canceled, so users need to manage cancellation themselves to avoid further charges. The terms do provide a 14-day cooling-off period for EEA consumers.

Temporary Chats are described as being automatically deleted within 30 days, and Atlas incognito browsing history is not saved after a session ends. This can reduce long-term retention for some activity.