Overview

• On June 3, OpenAI asked U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein to vacate Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang’s May 13 ruling that mandates indefinite preservation of all ChatGPT output logs, including deleted chats.
• CEO Sam Altman posted on X that the company will resist any demand that compromises user privacy, calling the data preservation request an inappropriate precedent.
• OpenAI lawyers warned in court filings that complying with the order would force major changes to the company’s data infrastructure and potentially conflict with its own privacy policies.
• New New York Times and other news organizations sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, accusing them of using millions of articles without permission to train their AI models.
• The outcome of the appeal could shape future data retention obligations for AI companies and affect the balance between user privacy rights and copyright protections.