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Regular ChatGPT users (among whom include the author of this article) may or may not have noticed that the hit chatbot from OpenAI allows users to enter into a “temporary chat” that is designed to wipe all the information exchanged between the user and the underlying AI model as soon as the chat session is closed by the user. In addition, OpenAI also allows users to manually delete prior ChatGPT sessions from the sidebar on the web and desktop/mobile apps by left-clicking or control-clicking, or holding down/long pressing on them from the selector.
However, this week, OpenAI found itself facing criticism from some of said ChatGPT users after they discovered that the company has not actually been deleting these chat logs as previously indicated.
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As AI influencer and software engineer Simon Willison wrote on his personal blog: “Paying customers of [OpenAI’s] APIs may well make the decision to switch to other providers who can offer retention policies that aren’t subverted by this court order!”
