"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."

Until it's Ed Zitron roasting a mute immobile Sam Altman over a literal flame of shadows for hours on end, it's not justice being served.

The NYT is trying to get access to all chat logs including private ones and ones that the user requested be deleted? Yeah, no that's really bad, please let's not celebrate that.

That private data could include things that would out trans people, immigrants, and other marginalized groups to a government that is actively building concentration camps.

I don't care about this drama over which billionaire copied another billionaire's stuff. This request is unacceptable and needs to be stopped. Can we counter sue the NYT for breach of private data?