The New York Times wants to save all your chats with ChatGpt forever

Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, recently responded to the controversial request of the New York Times newspaper, stressing that users’ talks with artificial intelligence chats must remain completely confidential and private; Just like conversations between a physician or a lawyer with your client. The comment came as the New York Times has called for permanent maintenance of all ChatGPT users’ conversations.

The story began when the New York Times filed a complaint against Openai and Microsoft in December, claiming that these companies had copied and used millions of articles from the newspaper to teach their language models, including ChatGpt and Copilot. During the case, the New York Times lawyers have asked the court to hold Openai to hold all calls with chats, even if users have erased them.

The request followed the Openai team’s strong protest. “The New York Times ‘recent request to prevent the removal of users’ chats is irrational and create a dangerous model,” Altman wrote in response to the issue on the social network X (former Twitter). “We will make this decision to the appeal and defend the privacy of our users.” He added that society should think of some kind of “legal immunity for artificial intelligence” to maintain users’ privacy.

Currently, Openai’s policy is such that if a user deletes a conversation, that data will be completely erased within a maximum of 5 days of Openai servers. But if the court votes in favor of the New York Times, the process has stopped and even eliminated chats should be stored forever. This can have a huge impact on ordinary ChatGPT users, whether in the free or money version. It is worth noting that Enterprise and Edu accounts as well as users who use APIs with the “Data Save” option will be excluded.

Openai has announced that it will protest the issued order and will release more information as soon as the final situation is determined.