Standing Up Against The New York Times' Violation of User Privacy

The New York Times (NYT) is demanding in court, as part of its lawsuit against OpenAI, that OpenAI submit 20 million of users' ChatGPT conversations. NYT is trying to find cases where users used ChatGPT to bypass its paywall.

OpenAI has pushed back against this demand, calling it a privacy violation and an excessive request that would expose the personal conversations of tens of millions of people who have nothing to do with the lawsuit, and has asked the court to dismiss it. OpenAI has previously fought back against similar attempts in the past, including an attempt to strip away users' right to delete conversations and a demand to submit 1.4 billion conversation records.

OpenAI is accelerating the following security roadmap to protect data:

• Strengthening message privacy through the introduction of client-side encryption
• Building a fully automated system to detect safety issues
• A process in which only strictly selected personnel review cases involving serious risks, such as threats to life

OpenAI proposed privacy-preserving alternatives to NYT, such as targeted searches based on specific keywords, but NYT rejected them.