It's just a file you download once.
The AI is a big file. Think of a long movie or a large game. It downloads to your computer one time, and then it lives on your disk like any other file.
GreenCube is an AI that runs on your own computer, not in a company's warehouse. That single difference changes everything about what happens to the things you type.
Understand this one picture and you understand everything. Which computer does the thinking: theirs, or yours?
So your words have to travel to it, across the internet, into a building full of their computers. They arrive there. And they stay there.
So your words don't go anywhere. They stay on your machine, get answered on your machine, and that's it. No building. No server. Nothing to leave.
Fair question. It sounds like magic. It isn't. It is three plain steps.
The AI is a big file. Think of a long movie or a large game. It downloads to your computer one time, and then it lives on your disk like any other file.
GreenCube opens that file and runs it, the same way your computer runs a game or opens Word. Your machine already knows how to do this. Nothing special needed.
Inside that file are billions of patterns learned from reading. When you type, your computer runs the numbers and writes back the most sensible answer. All on your own chip, with no internet required.
That's the whole trick. The same thing ChatGPT does in a warehouse, GreenCube does on the computer in front of you, just with a model built to fit.
These aren't features we added. They just happen on their own, because the AI is sitting on your computer.
There's no copy on any server. So there's no worker, no reviewer and no court order that can reach your chats. Not because we promise to be good. There is nothing to reach.
It's not a promise. There's just nothing there.No credits. No daily limit. No "you've run out for today" in the middle of something. It's your own computer doing the work, and you already paid for that.
Ask all day. Nothing is counting.Pay once and it's yours. You're not renting it, so nobody can take it away the day you stop paying, or the day they change the rules.
Owned, not rented.Their computers get so hot that fresh water is boiled away to cool them, about half a litre for every 20 to 50 questions. Your laptop just uses a fan.
No cooling tower. No reservoir.If you're not paying,
you're the product.
You already know this one. Google, Instagram and Facebook are free because you are what they sell. Your data is the price. Free AI works the exact same way. And here's the tell: with ChatGPT, the plans big companies pay for are not used to train the AI. The cheap ones you and I use are. Privacy isn't something they believe in. It's something they charge extra for.
| Who's using ChatGPT | Do they train on your chats? |
|---|---|
| You (Free, Plus, Go, Pro) | Yes, by default |
| Big companies (Team, Enterprise) | No |
Per OpenAI's own plan pages. GreenCube trains on nobody. There is no server to send your chats to.
Every claim here links to the company's own documentation or peer-reviewed research. Check them.
On the normal plans, your chats are used to train the AI unless you go and turn it off. They don't ask you first.
Not just software. Approved staff and outside contractors can open up conversations to fix problems, check for misuse, or obey the law.
A court told them to keep chat records, including ones people had already deleted. On someone else's computer, "delete" only means they agreed to delete it.
20–50 questions to a cloud AI evaporates roughly half a litre cooling the servers.
GPT-3's training drank as much fresh water as building 370 cars.
Already ~1.5% of the world's power. The IEA expects it to roughly double.
Sources: UC Riverside · IEA · water estimates vary by method, so we break them down honestly.
The plan-by-plan breakdown, who can read your chats, what happens to deleted ones, and how to switch training off.
Read the answer → Read nextThe real numbers, why researchers disagree about them, and what actually reduces it.
Read the answer →A Windows app with the AI built in. Chat and write, drop in a PDF and it reads it, show it a photo and it understands it. All of it running on your own machine.
Once, to sign in and download the AI the first time. After that it works fully offline. On a plane, in a blackout, when the servers are down.
The sign-in only confirms you paid. Your conversations never touch it. They never leave your computer at all.
Honestly? No. The big cloud ones are smarter, because they run on computers the size of a building. GreenCube is good, it's yours, and nobody can read it. That's the trade.