layer8 1 day ago

OpenAI Ireland Ltd, which as an EU resident is the entity that provides the ChatGPT services to me (according to ChatGPT’s own ToS), is within the jurisdiction of the EU, not the US.

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fc417fc802 1 day ago

Repeatedly making the same comment all over the local tree is childish and effectively spamming.

To your observation, it's certainly relevant to the situation at hand but has little to do with your original supposition. A US court can order any company that operates in the US to do anything within the bounds of US law, in the same way that an EU court can do the converse. Such an order might well make it impossible to legally do business in one or the other jurisdiction.

If OpenAI Ireland is a subsidiary it will be interesting to see to what extent the court order applies (or doesn't apply) to it. I wonder if it actually operates servers locally or if it's just a frontend that sends all your queries over to a US based backend.

People elsewhere in this comment section observed that the GDPR has a blanket carve out for things that are legally required. Seeing as compliance with a court order is legally required there is likely no issue regardless.