We specifically have an enterprise contract (in the EU), checked by our lawyers, that says they can’t store our data or use it for training.
This decision goes against that contract.
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BT_7274@lemmy.world 1 month ago
From what I gather, a company is being asked to retain potential evidence during a lawsuit involving said data. Am I missing something? What’s outside the norm here?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
so they never should have persisted that data to begin with, right? and if they didn’t persist it, they wouldn’t need to retain it
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, it’s more complicated than that.
Of course, data is persisted somewhere, in a transient fashion, for the purpose of computation.
And then promptly deleted or otherwise garbage collected in some manner.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think it’s debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.
A court order forcing them to no longer garbage, collect or delete data used for processing is a problem.
what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The only problem I see is that such storage could conflict with EU privacy laws, but the rest is normal.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The only thing I can tell is that they were already saving the chats of personal accounts but their SLAs prevent them from doing so with some corporate accounts. Apparently there is some concern that proprietary information will now be made part of a public case. Personally I feel like that’s the price of being an early adopter of something most people said was a bad idea but what do I know?
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I mean ChatGPT will straight insist this won’t happen. So no, it’s not the price of being an early adapter.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you are taking business advice from ChatGPT that includes purchasing a ChatGPT subscription or can’t be bothered to look up how it works beforehand then your business is probably going to fail.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Well, if classified information from government agencies comes to light in this case, there will be problems. Also important companies.
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
If that was the case wouldn’t the Judge just dismiss/banhammer the evidence from the case somehow? (IDK IANAL)
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The judge can declare certain evidence to be confidential, not to be part of public record, for attorney’s eyes only. But with high level security clearances, the judge may not even be able to see it. So who knows!