OpenAI Resists New York Times Demand for 20 Million Private ChatGPT Conversations
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Summary
OpenAI is fighting a legal demand from The New York Times for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations, arguing that users entrust the company with sensitive personal data and that OpenAI is accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect user data. The company emphasizes its responsibility to protect the personal conversations, files, credentials, and other sensitive information that 800 million weekly users share with ChatGPT.
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People entrust us with sensitive conversations, files, credentials, memories, searches, payment information, and AI agents that act on their behalf.
The New York Times is demanding that we turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversations.
We treat this data as among the most sensitive information in your digital life—and we’re building our privacy and security protections to match that responsibility.
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