OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit
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Summary
OpenAI is battling a court order as part of its ongoing lawsuit with The New York Times, which has accused the AI giant and Microsoft of copyright infringement, preserving millions of its articles to train their AI models.
The order forces OpenAI to store all logs of ChatGPT data, even when users request conversations to be deleted, and overrides existing privacy safeguards that meant data was erased after 30 days.
While the data will not be made public, and only a handful of OpenAI’s staff will have access to it, meaning only for legal purposes such as the lawsuit itself, the court order has broadly backed OpenAI’s concerns this sets a dangerous precedent for user privacy and is appealing the ruling.
This also only applies to regular ChatGPT users on the free, Pro, Plus and Team plans and does not include Enterprise or Edu customers, nor those who have specifically paid for a zero-data retention agreement.