As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, OpenAI opposes a court order mandating indefinite retention of ChatGPT outputs, citing privacy risks

A recent development involving OpenAI and The New York Times is proving just that. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is currently locked in a legal struggle that could have significant implications for user privacy and how AI companies handle our data.

When users delete ChatGPT prompts and the chatbot’s responses, OpenAI usually retains the data for 30 days before permanently erasing it. Going forward, the AI provider will stop discarding the logs. OpenAI will likewise retain many of the requests sent to its application programming interfaces along with the output generated in response.