FOI2025-00038: Peter Kyle's ChatGPT history
Response to a freedom of information (FOI) request for an export of Peter Kyle's ChatGPT history
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Reference number | FOI2025-00038 |
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Date of request | 14 January 2025 |
Date of response | 11 February 2025 |
Outcome | Information withheld |
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (the department) received the following request for information which we responded to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA):
The full history of Peter Kyle鈥檚 ChatGPT history, as obtained by exporting the data associated with the account by following OpenAI鈥檚 instructions for exporting history here: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7260999-how-do-i-export-my-chatgpt-history-and-data
Given the secretary of state has said publicly he utilises ChatGPT in his role as tech secretary, there should be no exemptions applicable that this is not government data, even if the account in question is owned by the secretary of state personally: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/tech-secretary-says-take-flack-ai-expansion-goes-wrong