Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI clarifies court order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions
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Summary
Chatbot provider OpenAI is facing criticism after users discovered that contrary to its previous statements, the company has not been deleting users’ chat logs.
Instead, the company has been preserving them since the middle of May in response to a federal court order, but failed to disclose this to users for three weeks after the order was made.
The court order comes in relation to a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times (NYT) against OpenAI and Microsoft, which alleges that OpenAI’s language models reproduce copyrighted news content.
OpenAI is appealing the order and is pushing the idea of ‘AI privilege’, which would allow for confidential conversations with AI bots similar to those with medical doctors or lawyers.
The company has filed a formal objection to the court order, but in the meantime, users of its free, plus, pro and team plans will have their chats stored indefinitely.