Comment by Aurornis
4 hours ago
> What is the purpose of OpenAI storing millions of private conversations
Your previous ChatGPT conversations show up right in the ChatGPT interface.
They have to store the private conversations to enable users to bring them up in the interface.
This isn't a secretive, hidden data collection. It's a clear and obvious feature right in the product. They're fighting for the ability to not retain secret records of past conversations that have been deleted.
The problem with the court order is that it requires them to keep the conversations even after a user presses the 'Delete' button on them.
They could have been stored at the client, and encrypted before optionally synced back to OpenAI servers in a way that the stored chats can only be read back by the user. Signal illustrates how this is possible.
OpenAI made a choice in how the feature was and is implemented.
> Our long-term roadmap includes advanced security features designed to keep your data private, including client-side encryption for your messages with ChatGPT. We believe these features will help keep your private conversations private and inaccessible to anyone else, even OpenAI.