OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely.”

Friday, June 06, 2025

Late Thursday, OpenAI confronted user panic over a sweeping court order requiring widespread chat log retention -- including users' deleted chats -- after moving to appeal the order that allegedly impacts the privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users globally. In a statement, OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap explained that the court order came in a lawsuit with The New York Times and other news organizations, which alleged that deleted chats may contain evidence of users prompting ChatGPT to generate copyrighted news articles.

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... To comply with the order, OpenAI must "retain all user content indefinitely going forward, based on speculation" that the news plaintiffs "might find something that supports their case," OpenAI's statement alleged.

The order impacts users of ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro, as well as users of OpenAI's application programming interface (API), OpenAI specified in a court filing this week. But "this does not impact ChatGPT Enterprise or ChatGPT Edu customers," OpenAI emphasized in its more recent statement. It also doesn't impact any user with a Zero Data Retention agreement.

OpenAI plans to challenge the order and is currently pushing for oral arguments, hoping that user testimony will help sway the court to set it aside. But for now, the company claims it's forced to abandon "long-standing privacy norms" and weaken privacy protections that users expect based on ChatGPT's terms of service. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-06 08:54 PM | Reply

Really surprised Danforth hasn't stormed the ramparts with a broken bottle, as the AI industry is approximately a billion times more harmful to intellectual property holders than individuals sharing MP3s could ever hope to be.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-06 09:08 PM | Reply

@#2 ... the AI industry is approximately a billion times more harmful to intellectual property holders than individuals sharing MP3s could ever hope to be. ...

Got links?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-06 09:16 PM | Reply

Sounds about right.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-06-07 07:25 AM | Reply