Judge Denies Creating “Mass Surveillance Program” Harming All ChatGPT Users
Freeman writes:
After a court ordered OpenAI to "indefinitely" retain all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, of millions of users, two panicked users tried and failed to intervene.
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In May, Judge Ona Wang, who drafted the order, rejected the first user's request [PDF] on behalf of his company simply because the company should have hired a lawyer to draft the filing. But more recently, Wang rejected a second claim from another ChatGPT user, Aidan Hunt, and that order went into greater detail, revealing how the judge is considering opposition to the order ahead of oral arguments this week, which were urgently requested by OpenAI.The second claim [PDF] to intervene came from Aidan Hunt, who said that he uses ChatGPT "from time to time," occasionally sending OpenAI "highly sensitive personal and commercial information in the course of using the service."
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Hunt claimed that he only learned that ChatGPT was retaining this information-despite policies specifying they would not-by stumbling upon the news in an online forum. Feeling that his Fourth Amendment and due process rights were being infringed, Hunt sought to influence the court's decision and proposed a motion to vacate the order that said Wang's "order effectively requires Defendants to implement a mass surveillance program affecting all ChatGPT users."
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