Instead of asking, "What is the purpose of OpenAI storing milllions of private conversations" and having HN commenters (mis)interpret this as something other than a rhetorical question, one could ask, "What are the consequences for users of OpenAI storing millions of private conversations that users do not wish to save"
HN replies might try to answer this as well but the answer is already known to the world
The conversations will be made available to the plaintiffs' (including New York Times') attorneys and the plaintiffs' attorneys' experts
If OpenAI did not store such conversations as a matter of practice before being sued, then there would be no private conversations to make available to the plaintiffs' attorneys and their experts
275 upvotes
AFAICT, most HN readers did _not_ misintepret the question
HN replies != HN, it is a small subset of the readership
HN replies might try to answer this as well but the answer is already known to the world
The conversations will be made available to the plaintiffs' (including New York Times') attorneys and the plaintiffs' attorneys' experts
If OpenAI did not store such conversations as a matter of practice before being sued, then there would be no private conversations to make available to the plaintiffs' attorneys and their experts
275 upvotes
AFAICT, most HN readers did _not_ misintepret the question
HN replies != HN, it is a small subset of the readership