A controversial court order has forced OpenAI to save deleted users posts “indefinitely” as part of its ongoing legal battle with the New York Times. However, it appears that’s mostly over—for now.

OpenAI was sued by the Times in December 2023 for allegedly using the Times’s copyrighted material to train its algorithm. Other news organizations also joined the litigation . As part of that case, the AI company was previously ordered to retain its chat logs “indefinitely”—including deleted ones—so that they could be examined for potential evidence related to the case. Ars Technica previously noted that this court order was quite sweeping, and impacted the privacy of “hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users globally.”

Indeed, OpenAI notably made a big stink about the order when it was in

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