OpenAI has appealed a court ruling from last month that forces it to retain ChatGPT data indefinitely as part of a copyright violation case brought by The New York Times in 2023. CEO Sam Altman said in a tweet on X that the judge's decision "compromises our users' privacy" and "sets a bad precedent.

In the ongoing copyright infringement case brought by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft (The New York Times Company v.