User beware => all temporary chats are now stored - Data retention

Just came across this

Has there been a ruling made in the last couple of days that OpenAI must keep…

Makes perfect sense to a degree. Some questions and outputs, potentially used in real-world situations with risk and consequences often disappear when you ask that same question again a few hours later.

I’ve had several occasions testing AI models that the same question repeated 6 hours apart were substantially different in outcomes so it’s hard to know when hallucination or history of the output (potentially wrong advice) is able to be assessed without screenshots.

It hopefully keeps AI developers to be accountable for some of the outputs they produce. However, there will probably be an adverse outcome to the environment for more space/capacity to keep these records.

This is a fascinating development and astute observation; thank you @charlt and @SamuelWong for sharing.