Can I use a website made with ChatGPT or Claude for my business? Who owns it?

Yes. OpenAI's Terms of Use, effective January 1, 2026, say “As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output.” Anthropic's Consumer Terms, effective October 8, 2025, say “Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.” Google's Terms of Service, effective July 30, 2026, cover Gemini and say “Google won't claim ownership over that content.” Apart from Anthropic's rule for evaluation use, none of the 3 names business use of the page as off limits. Their usage policies add rules for pages that give legal, medical, or financial advice.

What the terms leave open is the law. Each grant reaches only as far as the law allows: “to the extent permitted by applicable law,” “if any.” Whether anyone can hold a copyright in an AI-written page is for copyright law to decide, and for the United States, the Copyright Office's January 29, 2025 report says “Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material.”

Each company's terms were read on October 23, 2026, and every quote below gives its document's own date. This page reports what those documents say. It doesn't predict what a court would decide.

What OpenAI's terms say: ChatGPT, Codex, and ChatGPT Sites

OpenAI's Terms of Use apply to “ChatGPT, DALL·E, and OpenAI's other services for individuals,” and their ownership clause names no plan. ChatGPT Enterprise, the API, and OpenAI's other services for businesses fall under the OpenAI Services Agreement, effective January 1, 2026, which says the same about ownership: the customer “owns all Output.”

• Ownership. You “own the Output,” and “We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.”
• The page may not be unique. “Due to the nature of our Services and artificial intelligence generally, output may not be unique and other users may receive similar output from our Services. Our assignment above does not extend to other users' output or any Third Party Output.”
• Your job before you publish. “You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including using human review as appropriate, before using or sharing Output from the Services.” You may not “Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not,” or use the services “in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone's rights.”
• Advice that needs a license. The Terms of Use also say you must follow OpenAI's Usage Policies, effective October 29, 2025 (a new version takes effect November 20, 2026). They bar “provision of tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional,” and “deceit, fraud, scams, spam, or impersonation.” They name no AI label for websites.
• Code can carry other licenses. OpenAI's Service Terms, updated October 16, 2026: “Output generated by code generation features of our Services, including OpenAI Codex, may be subject to third party licenses, including, without limitation, open source licenses.”
• One named exception. “ChatGPT Voice Output is for non-commercial use only,” and the rights OpenAI assigns to you don't include it.

The Terms of Use also tell you to follow OpenAI's Sharing & Publication Policy, updated November 14, 2022. For social media posts, it asks you to “Indicate that the content is AI-generated in a way no user could reasonably miss or misunderstand.” For written content made with the API, such as a book, it asks that “The role of AI in formulating the content is clearly disclosed.” It doesn't name websites.

If you publish with OpenAI's own host, the ChatGPT Sites Terms, updated July 23, 2026, apply too. They say “Website Content is your Content. You retain any ownership rights you have in Website Content.” They allow selling: “You may choose to implement and use third-party payment providers and processors (“Payment Providers”) to sell goods or services to or collect payments from End Users.” OpenAI “may display attribution text or links in your website footer or toolbar, such as noting that your website is powered by ChatGPT,” and ChatGPT Sites “is a Beta Service.” The page ChatGPT Sites alternatives compares it with other hosts.

What Anthropic's terms say: Claude and Claude Code

Anthropic's Consumer Terms govern “Claude.ai, Claude Pro, and other products and services that we may offer for individuals.” Its Commercial Terms, effective June 17, 2025, govern “any Anthropic API key, the Anthropic Console, or any other Anthropic offerings that reference the Commercial Terms of Service.”

• Ownership, consumer plans. “Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.”
• Ownership, API and Console. “Anthropic agrees that Customer (a) retains all rights to its Inputs, and (b) owns its Outputs.”
• Your job before you publish. “You should not rely on any Outputs or Actions without independently confirming their accuracy.” The Commercial Terms: “It is Customer's responsibility to evaluate whether Outputs are appropriate for Customer's use case, including where human review is appropriate, before using or sharing Outputs.”
• What you may not do. Use the services “To infringe, misappropriate, or violate intellectual property or other legal rights,” or use them “to deceive any person.”
• The Usage Policy, part of the terms. The Consumer Terms “include our Acceptable Use Policy,” Anthropic's Usage Policy, effective September 15, 2025. It bars using Claude to “Impersonate a human by presenting results as human-generated.” For its “High-Risk Use Cases” (legal, healthcare, insurance, finance, employment and housing, academic testing, and media or professional journalistic content), “a qualified professional in that field must review the content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization,” and “If model outputs are presented directly to individuals or consumers, you must disclose to them that you are using AI to help produce your advice, decisions, or recommendations.” A consumer-facing chatbot built on Claude “must disclose to users that they are interacting with AI rather than a human.” The next version, effective November 12, 2026, keeps these rules in new words.
• One limit on evaluation. “In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Services for a limited time or with limited functionality. Use of our Services for evaluation purposes are for your personal, non-commercial use only.” Anthropic doesn't say which plans count as evaluation.

What Google's terms say: Gemini

Google's Gemini Apps Privacy Hub, updated October 19, 2026, says “The Google Terms of Service and the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy apply to Gemini Apps.” Google's older Generative AI Additional Terms of Service “no longer apply” since May 22, 2024, when the main terms took over AI topics.

• Ownership. “Some of our services allow you to generate original content. Google won't claim ownership over that content.”
• What you may not do. Use the services in deceptive ways, such as “misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human,” or use them “(including the content they provide) to violate anyone's legal rights, such as intellectual property or privacy rights.”
• The Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. Google's policy, last modified December 17, 2024, bars “Misrepresenting the provenance of generated content by claiming it was created solely by a human, in order to deceive,” and “Facilitating misleading claims of expertise or capability in sensitive areas,” such as health, finance, or the law. It names no AI label for websites.
• Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. Their additional terms, effective March 23, 2026, say “Google won't claim ownership over that content. You acknowledge that Google may generate the same or similar content for others and that we reserve all rights to do so,” and “You're responsible for your use of generated content, and for the use of that content by anyone you share it with.” They are “for professional or business purposes, not for consumer use.”

Case by case

The table applies the terms to what people ask about a page an AI wrote. Where a company's terms don't address a question, the cell says so.

What none of the terms decides

Copyright in the page

The terms hand you whatever rights the company has. They don't say a page an AI wrote can be copyrighted. For U.S. law, the Copyright Office's report Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability, published January 29, 2025, concludes:

• “Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements.”
• “Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control.”
• “Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputs.”
• “Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.”

The report covers U.S. law only.

Who answers if the page copies someone

On the plans for individuals, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic promises the output infringes no one. OpenAI's Terms of Use disclaim warranties of “NON-INFRINGEMENT,” and so do Anthropic's Consumer Terms.

The business terms add a defense, with exclusions. OpenAI's Service Terms extend its indemnity for API and Enterprise customers to claims “that Customer's use or distribution of Output infringes a third party's intellectual property right,” but not where “Output was modified, transformed, or used in combination with products or services not provided by or on behalf of OpenAI.” Anthropic's Commercial Terms cover claims that “Customer's paid use of the Services” or “Outputs generated through such authorized use” infringe, but not claims arising from “modifications made by Customer to the Services or Outputs.” Both exclude trademark claims about using an output “in trade or commerce.”

Where you publish has rules of its own

The AI's terms make the page yours. The host's terms decide whether a business page may run there.

Publish your AI-made page on Convika

Convika's terms treat a page your AI made as yours. Section 3: “Pages and changes that the built-in AI or a connected AI client produces for you are your User Content under Section 6, and you are responsible for reviewing them before you publish them.” Section 6: “You retain ownership of all content you create and publish through the Service.” Section 7 allows commercial use on every plan, Free included: a page that sells or advertises a product or service, a startup or waitlist page, or a client's page you build, host, and bill the client for. It bars reselling Convika itself without permission.

The box above puts the page on a private Convika preview link in seconds, with no signup. The link works for 3 minutes, and the page's scripts and forms stay off until you keep it with a free account. To publish, sign up free, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard, and drop the file from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini (.html or .htm, up to 2 MB) or paste its code. Claude, Claude Code, or Codex can also save the page through Convika's MCP server.

Free includes 1 published page, 10,000 page views a month, 50 form entries a month with CSV export and an email for each, 90 days of visit stats, and 1 custom subdomain such as www.yourbrand.com, with a small Convika badge. Pro costs $12 a month and removes the badge and the form cap. Pricing lists each plan.

Not a fit for: an app with several routes or server code. Convika hosts a single HTML document per page, and the page's scripts can only fetch data from its own address.

Frequently asked questions

Do I own a website I made with ChatGPT?

Yes. OpenAI's Terms of Use say “As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output.” OpenAI also says output “may not be unique,” so another user may get a similar page.

Do I own the code Claude writes for me?

Yes, as far as Anthropic's rights go. The Consumer Terms say “we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.” With an API key, the Commercial Terms say the customer “owns its Outputs.” Whether the code can be copyrighted is a question of law.

Does Google own what Gemini makes?

No. Google's Terms of Service, which apply to Gemini Apps, say “Some of our services allow you to generate original content. Google won't claim ownership over that content.” The Gemini API terms add that Google “may generate the same or similar content for others.”

Can I use a ChatGPT-made website for my business?

Yes. OpenAI's Terms of Use give you the Output and don't name business use as off limits. You must check the page before you publish it, you may not present it as human-written, and code in it “may be subject to third party licenses.” The host you publish on needs to allow business use too: GitHub Pages and Vercel's Hobby plan don't.

Can I sell a website I made with AI to a client?

Yes, nothing in the AI terms rules it out. None of OpenAI's, Anthropic's, or Google's terms names client work. OpenAI and Anthropic give you the output, and Google won't claim ownership of it. Convika's terms allow it on every plan, Free included: you can build a client's page, host it on Convika, and bill the client.

Can I copyright a website made with ChatGPT or Claude?

No, not under U.S. law for the parts the AI generated on its own, according to the U.S. Copyright Office. Its January 29, 2025 report says “Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material” and that “prompts do not alone provide sufficient control.” It says copyright can cover human authorship that is perceptible in the output, and a person's creative selection, arrangement, or modification of it, decided case by case.

Do I have to say my website was made with AI?

No, not for an ordinary business page: none of the terms read for this page requires a label on one. Anthropic's Usage Policy does for high-risk uses such as legal, health, insurance, or financial advice: “If model outputs are presented directly to individuals or consumers, you must disclose to them that you are using AI to help produce your advice, decisions, or recommendations.” All 3 companies bar passing the output off as a person's work: OpenAI's terms bar presenting it as human-generated, Anthropic's Usage Policy bars “presenting results as human-generated,” and Google's terms bar “misleading others into thinking that generative AI content was created by a human.” OpenAI's Sharing & Publication Policy asks for an AI label on social media posts.

Can someone else get the same website from ChatGPT?

Yes. OpenAI's Terms of Use say “output may not be unique and other users may receive similar output from our Services,” and its assignment “does not extend to other users' output.” Google's Gemini API terms say the same of Gemini output.

Will OpenAI or Anthropic defend me if my AI-made page infringes someone's rights?

No, not on the plans for individuals: both disclaim warranties of “NON-INFRINGEMENT.” OpenAI's API and Enterprise customers and Anthropic's paying Commercial Terms customers get an indemnity, with exclusions for output that was modified or combined with other products, and for trademark claims about using output “in trade or commerce.”

Can I publish an AI-made business page on Convika's free plan?

Yes. Section 7 of Convika's terms says “You may use the Service for commercial purposes on every plan, including the Free plan.” Section 3 says pages an AI made for you are your User Content, and you review them before you publish.

Sources

• Terms of Use (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Service Terms (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• OpenAI Services Agreement (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• ChatGPT Sites Terms (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Sharing & publication policy (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Usage policies, effective October 29, 2025 (OpenAI) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Consumer Terms of Service (Anthropic) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Commercial Terms of Service (Anthropic) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Usage Policy, effective September 15, 2025 (Anthropic) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Google Terms of Service (checked October 23, 2026)
• Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy (Google) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Gemini Apps Privacy Hub (Google) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Generative AI Additional Terms of Service (Google) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Gemini API Additional Terms of Service (Google) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (U.S. Copyright Office) (checked October 23, 2026)
• GitHub Terms for Additional Products and Features (GitHub Docs) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Fair Use Guidelines (Vercel Docs) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Introducing Netlify's Free plan (Netlify) (checked October 23, 2026)
• Self-Serve Subscription Agreement (Cloudflare) (checked October 23, 2026)