OpenAI – How to delete your account

OpenAI just dropped a relationship‑status update you can’t reverse: a guide on how to permanently delete your account. The rules are strict—type your email plus DELETE, confirm, and it’s over. Data gets cleared in about 30 days (with a few legal/security exceptions). Oh, and if you subscribed via Apple or Google, you still have to cancel billing in their stores to stop charges. The link to the Privacy Portal and the self‑serve steps are right there—but the real show is the comments.

One crowd is treating the whole thing like market theater. User webdevver joked they’d “buy the dip” if OpenAI were publicly traded, turning a help article into Wall Street fanfic. Another voice, silverwind, flexed with “Good think I never had one,” the internet’s favorite humblebrag. Then doom bells rang: stingraycharles veered into a mini‑manifesto about government plus AI, mass surveillance, and murky lines between humans and machines—turning a delete button into a Black Mirror monologue.

Meanwhile, skeptics like ekjhgkejhgk asked why this is news at all—is deleting just… normal? And a pragmatic commenter, hliyan, floated the spicy idea of a 30‑day “clean slate” cleanse: delete now, recreate later (note: that’s a user tip, not official policy). Bottom line: a simple how‑to became a messy comment‑section group therapy session about power, privacy, and whether we’re rage‑quitting or just taking a detox.