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OMG, OpenAI was forced by a judge to retain all your chats and so they can never be deleted!

I’ve talked about this case before but it seems that people are talking about it again, so let me be very clear - the judge told OpenAI that they could not honor user’s requests to delete outputs in order to determine if OpenAI was indeed violating NY Times copyright when users try to bypass paywalls.

Let me repeat, the order from the judge here was to preserve outputs, not entire chats (i.e. inputs), which I would argue are far more damning. This broad retention requirement is specific to this case and it is due to OpenAI’s attempt to oppose a broad motion for discovery by saying they could not show any chats from deleted sessions. OpenAI argued that it was technically infeasible, so then the judge took this action.

OpenAI allows Google to index all your private chats!

This one hit the news pretty hard and clearly it was a UI design fail, but the chicken little/ sky is falling response was pretty alarming. Basically, when you are a ChatGPT user, you can click a button to allow a chat session to be shared. When you do so, the shareable link made the content accessible to Google’s indexing bot, which then prioritizes based on the Google algorithm, where they show up in a search session.

It sort of reminds me when an employee shared all the HR files on Google Drive because they did not realize that by clicking “share” it defaulted to all, including the internet.

Apparently, OpenAI fixed this by removing the ability for Google to index the chat sessions, but I would still argue that it is all intentional lack of care, which in the legal world, we call negligence. Sometimes gross negligence.

Watch out for hackers in your AI chats!

This one, I particularly love, because a reader sent it to me. I had to re-read it a few times because at first I did not realize that OP was saying someone had hacked into their OpenAI account and was using it to…find out information about the OP?

I am suspicious because wouldn’t it have been easier for the hacker to just look at their settings? Probably but the security warning and fix is good to know. Maybe it was AI attacking the AI chatbot. Hmmm. That’s kinda freaking me out.

Oh, and the fix is to enable two-factor, which was not available when ChatGPT first released so always remember to check those settings on any app where you share personal information. They are constantly being changed and sometimes the defaults are not your default.