Both answer the question. Only one of them cannot read it. ChatGPT's own terms and the court record describe what a provider that holds your plaintext can be made to do with it.
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A 2025 preservation order in NYT v. OpenAI required output logs to be retained, including deleted chats. OpenAI states the obligation ended on 26 September 2025; the litigation continues.
OpenAI, "How we're responding to The New York Times' data demands" · read 20 Aug 2026 ↗Deleting a chat or an account removes it from OpenAI's systems within about 30 days, unless it must be retained for legal or security reasons.
OpenAI Help Center, chat and file retention policies · read 20 Aug 2026 ↗Conversations can be reviewed by automated systems and, in some cases, by people, for safety and abuse enforcement.
OpenAI privacy policy · read 20 Aug 2026 ↗ChatGPT runs frontier models. Amnesia AI® runs open-weight models up to 122B inside the enclave, and that is a real capability gap on the hardest reasoning tasks.
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