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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. ...

@#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?

@#6 ... I find it interesting openai is the only AI system being forced to keep chats indefinately ...

So far, ChatGPT logs seem to be the only ones questioned in this specific lawsuit.

Will this lawsuit be a precedent that may apply to other AI engines?

Time will tell.

Meanwhile, I have noticed of late some unusual scraping of the data I provide on a couple of my websites.

While I do note that the OpenAI search bot has abided by my robots.txt file, these other bots do not.