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▲ godwinson__4-8 6 hours ago

Federal prosecutors work for OpenAI?

I actually am curious if they were able to volunteer the information to the government of their own volition, without a government subpoena first. I would think that could violate their own terms if done sloppily. Maybe different if an employee or maybe they had to invite the government to ask for them or something? In any case, the mechanism aside, the state would have asked anyway (say if he used another company's chatbot) so the fact that it's the "same company" is rather irrelevant. The evidence would have ended up in the state's hands one way or the other, and I would think a search warrant in this case would have been rather routine. Search warrants are infamously not a high bar to climb in most jurisdictions, as often the presiding judges tend to default to deferring to the state.

▲happyopossum an hour ago | parent [-]

> I actually am curious if they were able to volunteer the information to the government of their own volition, without a government subpoena first

Do you think Target has any legal restrictions on sharing surveillance video of a shoplifter with the police when they report a crime? This is the same thing - logs are evidence, and when you report a crime you can volunteer said evidence without restriction if you choose to do so.