> I do not believe lawyers in any copyright case would get access to user data in a case like this.
Based on what? Keep in mind that the data is to be used for litigation purposes only and cannot be disclosed except to the extent necessary to address the dispute. It can't be given to third parties who aren't working on the issue.
> There is also a gap in the capabilities and prevalence of govt to force individual companies or even employees to insert and maintain secret backdoors with gag orders outside of court
There's no secret backdoor here. OpenAI isn't being asked to write new code--and in fact their zero-data-retention (ZDR) API hasn't changed to record data that it never recorded in the first place. They were simply ordered to disable deletion functionality in their main API, and they were not forbidden from disclosing that change to their customers.
Based on what? Keep in mind that the data is to be used for litigation purposes only and cannot be disclosed except to the extent necessary to address the dispute. It can't be given to third parties who aren't working on the issue.
> There is also a gap in the capabilities and prevalence of govt to force individual companies or even employees to insert and maintain secret backdoors with gag orders outside of court
There's no secret backdoor here. OpenAI isn't being asked to write new code--and in fact their zero-data-retention (ZDR) API hasn't changed to record data that it never recorded in the first place. They were simply ordered to disable deletion functionality in their main API, and they were not forbidden from disclosing that change to their customers.