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OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted chats

Artificial IntelligenceOctober 11, 2025
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OpenAI will stop saving most ChatGPT users’ deleted chats
Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs. ...

OpenAI will finally stop saving most ChatGPT users' deleted and temporary chats after a court fight compelled the AI firm to retain the logs "indefinitely."

The preservation order came in a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs, who alleged that user attempts to skirt paywalls with ChatGPT would most likely set their chats as temporary or delete the logs.

OpenAI vowed to fight the order, defending its policies and users' privacy, but it lost. By July, news plaintiffs started digging through the logs—which only preserved ChatGPT's outputs—while a few ChatGPT users' efforts to intervene were consistently denied, as they were deemed non-parties to the lawsuit.

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Source: Ars Technica

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