Your ChatGPT history can end up in court. A judge ordered OpenAI to hand over how many conversations?

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A federal judge ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million ChatGPT conversations in a copyright lawsuit brought by news publishers. While the logs are stripped of personal names, the full text remains readable and searchable. Individual users were never notified that their specific conversations were in the sample.

A judge ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million ChatGPT conversations as evidence. Yours could be one of them.

Source: US District Court, SDNY (In re: OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation) · checked Jan 2026