{"id":72518,"date":"2025-10-10T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72518\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:05:09","slug":"openai-can-finally-stop-saving-deleted-chatgpt-conversations-but-not-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72518\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI can finally stop saving deleted ChatGPT conversations – but not for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI can stop saving all the conversations that users have with ChatGPT after a new court order. Notably, the AI startup had saved all conversations with its chatbot under obligation from a \u2018preservation order\u2019 in the lawsuit filed by the New York Times among other news publishers.<\/p>\n

\u200bA new order passed by US Magistrate Judge Ona Wang, reported by Ars Technica, approved a joint motion from OpenAI and the news organizations to terminate the preservation order.<\/p>\n

\u200bThis means that OpenAI will no longer need to “preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis.”<\/p>\n

\u200bThe news organizations would continue to have access to all the temporary and even deleted chats that were saved under the preservation order until September 26th.<\/p>\n

\u200bMoreover, OpenAI<\/a> will also reportedly keep monitoring some ChatGPT<\/a> accounts and save deleted and temporary chats of any user who has been flagged by the news organizations after they began looking through the data.<\/p>\n

\u200bOpenAI vs news organizations: What happened so far?<\/p>\n

\u200bIn December 2023, the New York Times<\/a> and other news publications had filed a case against OpenAI and its biggest backer, Microsoft, alleging that they used its copyrighted material to train their AI models.<\/p>\n

\u200bOpenAI tried to fight what it had termed the NYT’s attempt at \u2018mass surveillance\u2019 of ChatGPT user data and raised privacy concerns, but it could not convince the court to keep user data private.<\/p>\n

\u200bA US Magistrate Judge ordered OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT conversations indefinitely, including normal, temporary, and deleted chats.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe Times argued that these logs would prove that ChatGPT was trained on its copyrighted articles, with the output from the AI<\/a> being verbatim or near verbatim an excerpt from its content.<\/p>\n

\u200bIn reaction to the copyright complaints by the news organizations, OpenAI has often cited the \u2018fair use\u2019 doctrine, claiming that it is entitled to use limited, unlicensed use of copyrighted material for research and commentary purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI can stop saving all the conversations that users have with ChatGPT after a new court order. Notably,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,48312,218,219,2670,48313,48314,61,60,1682,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-72518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chatgpt","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-chatgpt","13":"tag-chatgpt-ai","14":"tag-chatgpt-chat","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-openai","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}