OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit

OpenAI says it’s forced to store deleted ChatGPT conversations “indefinitely” due to a court order issued as part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it. In a post on Thursday, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap says the company is appealing the court’s decision, which he calls an “overreach” that “abandons long-standing privacy norms and weakens privacy protections.”

Last month, a court ordered OpenAI to preserve “all output log data that would otherwise be deleted,”...