I hate everything about this
You probably aren’t. You’re on somebody’s side who described OpenAI’s point of view. You won’t have an independent opinion before you’ve read at least one different source. One that is not owned by a huge media conglomerate, that is. Everyone seems willing to make up their minds after somebody somewhere told them something without verification. That’s how you’re getting a poorly informed half-wit without an idea of critical thinking.
The article is fine IMO, but upon further reflection, you’re right that OpenAI doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. I’ve amended my opinion.
Naive to think any company actually deletes data, unless it’s literally their business to do so, or they’re destroying evidence. Even so, there’s probably multiple copies available. It’s simply too valuable. They just flag it as inactive, but I’d bet it’s still there for data mining or training.
Nope! We have policies of regularly deleting data as leftover data can turn into a legal nightmare, especially when it comes to discovery. It’s much easier to point them to the policy of why it isn’t there than to try to compile and give it to them and then potentially have something buried in there. The only thing we keep longer are things legally obligated.
That would be covered under the “destroying evidence” - It’s just being destroyed before it can be determined to be evidence, which is legal if done because of retention policies.
(Identifying data and establishing which policies apply to it is part of my work, I just find it ironic that we’re effectively pre-deleting evidence).
It’s just data until it can be considered evidence. The moment we get a discovery letter, of course we’re legally obligated to preserve the records, but until then it’s just company data and we can do with it whatever we want, including destroying it, otherwise everything in the world is “evidence”
