New judge’s ruling makes OpenAI keeping a record of all your ChatGPT chats one step closer to reality

• A federal judge rejected a ChatGPT user's petition against her order that OpenAI preserve all ChatGPT chats
• The order followed a request by The New York Times as part of its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft
• OpenAI plans to continue arguing against the ruling

OpenAI will be holding onto all of your conversations with ChatGPT and possibly sharing them with a lot of lawyers, even the ones you thought you deleted. That's the upshot of an order from the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times over copyright infringement. Judge Ona Wang upheld her earlier order to preserve all ChatGPT conversations for evidence after rejecting a motion by ChatGPT user Aidan Hunt, one of several from ChatGPT users asking her to rescind the order over privacy and other concerns.

Judge Wang told OpenAI to “indefinitely” preserve ChatGPT’s outputs ...