OpenAI’s policies state that when a user deletes a chat, it retains it for 30 days before permanently deleting it. The company must now put a pause on this policy until the court says otherwise. OpenAI says the court order will impact free,

When users delete ChatGPT prompts and the chatbot’s responses, OpenAI usually retains the data for 30 days before permanently erasing it. Going forward, the AI provider will stop discarding the logs. OpenAI will likewise retain many of the requests sent to its application programming interfaces along with the output generated in response.

OpenAI has appealed a court ruling from last month that forces it to retain ChatGPT data indefinitely as part of a copyright violation case brought by The New York Times in 2023. CEO Sam Altman said in a tweet on X that the judge's decision "compromises our users' privacy" and "sets a bad precedent.