

Note this court order is exclusively for an ongoing case into copyright infringement.
I’m of two minds of this.
- On one hand, I don’t want to normalize forcing companies to collect data on users and retain it past their stated deletion dates. OpenAI (allegedly) deletes customer data after some time, and I’d like to hold them to that!
- On the other hand, I trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them. The only reason they would ever delete data, as they state themselves, is for business interests. They probably want to keep corporate clients more than they want to risk the leakage of sensitive client information.
Ironically, this new China policy would only require them to give you an ID that the government knows is associated with you. In other words, on a technical level, it might be more private than their current system.
In the United States, the concept of a digital ID is reprehensible because it would be far worse than the status quo.