OpenAI printed DELETE on a button a billion people press — then a federal judge in Manhattan quietly repossessed the key. For four and a half months in 2025, deleting a ChatGPT conversation did nothing: a preservation order in the New York Times copyright case had frozen it, deleted chats and “no-trace” Temporary Chats alike. The order ended September 26, 2025 — and weeks later, roughly twenty million supposedly-deleted conversations were handed to a newspaper's lawyers in discovery anyway. Vanessa Rhodes, Mitchell Yoon, Ian McAllister and Graham Beckett tear into what “delete” has ever actually meant — until Brian turns the same fire on SOVREN's own crypto-erase and dares the room to break it. It holds: the key destroyed on delete, kept in SOVREN's own vault with no cloud custodian for a court to lean on, every erasure provable with a signed receipt. The only thing left standing is the honest open question — can a delete promise this real survive the day a court comes for it? No consensus. No absolution. Come for the collision, stay for the wreckage.
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