What happens in a discovery request involving AI output?

Discovery involving AI usually reaches beyond documents to the interaction itself — what was asked, what the system was told, what it answered. Organizations relying on a provider's conversation history find that retention, export format and jurisdiction are all outside their control at the moment they need them inside it.

Prompts, reasoning traces, answers, interaction logs and dialogue history are records in the organization's own SQL environment, carrying the same classification, retention and legal-hold treatment as content. A hold can be applied to AI artefacts on the same terms as to documents, and production draws on the organization's own reporting rather than on a vendor support request.