To me, this is akin to Google saying that they don't want to follow a court-ordered law because it would be a privacy invasion.. I feel like OpenAI framed the issue as a privacy conversation and some news journalist are going along with it without questioning the source and their current privacy policy re: data retention and data sharing affiliates, vendors, etc.

It takes 30 seconds to save the privacy policy and upload it to an LLM and ask it questions and it quickly becomes clear that their privacy policy allows them to hold onto data indefinitely as is.