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=== ✅ Chat Privacy vs API Key Exposure ===

| Thing                                       | Who can see it          | Security Meaning                        |
| ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Your ChatGPT conversation                   | Only you when logged in | Private, not publicly visible.          |
| API Secret Key (sk_test_...) posted in chat | The model has seen it   | The key must be treated as compromised. |

Once a secret key is input into a model, the safe security assumption (industry standard) is:

: The key is no longer exclusively known only to you.

ChatGPT itself does not publish, leak, sell, or expose your keys — but:
* Model data persistence rules,
* Internal logging,
* Model training/evaluation pipelines,
* Safety auditing layers,
* Future retrieval tools,

mean you should never store secrets in a chat conversation — in any LLM — not just here.

This applies equally to:
* Stripe secret keys
* Bank API keys
* OAuth client secrets
* JWT signing keys
* Issuer provisioning credentials

This is the same rule Stripe themselves enforces:
https://stripe.com/docs/security/guide#never-share-your-api-keys