"The Manhattan court order requiring OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT conversations to the New York Times and other publishers as part of a copyright lawsuit is being viewed as a turning point in data privacy, and not in a good way.
We obtained a copy of the order for you here.
What appears as a routine evidence request has opened the door to something far more troubling: the normalization of mass data disclosure from private digital interactions, justified in the name of legal discovery.
Even though the court insists that users’ identifying information will be stripped away, the scope of this order is staggering.
Twenty million chat logs represent millions of individual exchanges that some users believed were confidential. These records contain not just questions or writing samples, but fragments of personal thought, sensitive health concerns, professional secrets, intimate reflections, and sometimes details that no one ever intended to share beyond a chatbot interface.
The problem lies in the illusion of anonymization."
https://reclaimthenet.org/court-forces-openai-to-hand-over-20-million-chatgpt-chats
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