Court orders in the OpenAI vs NYT case can force longer retention of your chats
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-09
In a thread on AI data retention, researcher Niloofar Mireshghallah notes that even when model providers promise no data retention, random legal proceedings and court orders — like the OpenAI vs NYT case — can force companies to keep user data longer. She also criticizes opaque 'safety classifiers': chats flagged by these poorly understood systems can be retained by providers indefinitely.
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