"The New York Times, one of the great institutions for a long time, is taking a position that we should have to preserve our users' logs even if they're chatting in private mode, even if they’ve asked us to delete them," the CEO [Sam Altman] explained. "And the lawsuit we're having to fight out, but... we think privacy and AI is an extremely important concept to get right for the future"

This is part of the NYT's lawsuit's discovery process, to find proof of alleged plagiarism.

"Well thank you for your views," the journalist and podcaster said, "and I'll just say it must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to."