OpenAI has protested a court order that forces it to retain its users’ conversations. The creator of the ChatGPT AI model objected to the order, which is part of a copyright infringement case against it by The New York Times and other publishers.
The news organizations argued that ChatGPT was presenting their content in its responses to the point where users were reading this material instead of accessing their paid content directly.
The publishers said that deleted ChatGPT conversations might show users obtaining this proprietary published content via the service.
The issue was up for debate in a January, where Judge Ona T. Wang suggested that users who heard about the legal case might delete those conversations to cover their tracks. She denied the publishers’ request for a preservation order at the time, but also asked why OpenAI couldn’t segregate and make anonymous data from users who had requested deletion. OpenAI failed to address this, Wang said, leading to her order, granted May 13.
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