The New York Times is demanding that we turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversations. They claim they might find examples of you using ChatGPT to try to get around their paywall.
This demand disregards long-standing privacy protections, breaks with common-sense security practices, and would force us to turn over tens of millions of highly personal conversations from people who have no connection to the Times’ baseless lawsuit against OpenAI.
They have tried this before. Originally, the Times wanted you to lose the ability to delete your private chats. We fought that and restored your right to remove them. Then they demanded we turn over 1.4 billion of your private ChatGPT conversations. We pushed back, and we’re pushing back again now. Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access.
We respect strong, independent journalism and partner with many publishers and newsrooms. Journalism has historically played a critical role in defending people’s right to privacy throughout the world. However, this demand from the New York Times does not live up to that legacy, and we’re asking the court to reject it. We will continue to explore every option available to protect our users’ privacy.
https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion/