alt Hacker NewsNone that operate legally will be able to avoid logging chats when ordered to do so.
For example OpenAI were required by a US federal judge to log all chats, and make them discoverable to lawyers representing The New York Times last year. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-new-york-times-copyri...
Additionally the company can be gagged by a court from disclosing that the chats are being logged, at least in the USA and the UK.
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The Lavabit case years ago was quite scandalous, things have only gotten worse. There should have been much harsher limits on what companies can be compelled to do.
Although a good lawyer can appeal a board order. What the courts will say is unknown, but there are real constitutional questions about ordering everything.
There is a legal distinction between document retention, which is what OpenAI was ordered to do, versus re architecting to generate documents for logless providers.