US EditionNews orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
News organizations accuse OpenAI of deleting millions of chat logs despite court orders and seek sanctions and a preservation order to prevent further loss of evidence.
- Lawyers for The New York Times and others asked Manhattan Federal Judge Sidney Stein to sanction OpenAI for alleged deletions and force Microsoft to produce Copilot logs by January 9.
- Facing alleged use of their work in ChatGPT, The New York Times, The New York Daily News and Authors Guild say deleted logs hinder proof of infringement and want OpenAI to explain destroyed data.
- Court filings say OpenAI substituted and deleted over 1 million requested logs, engaged in hashing of about 20 million chats, and recorded two spikes in mass deletions, attorneys allege.
- After alleging continued destruction, news plaintiffs requested a preservation order blocking deletions and an evidentiary hearing in the coming months to examine potentially recoverable ChatGPT conversations.
- With publishers and the Authors Guild involved, the case may reshape evidence preservation expectations as plaintiffs allege an OpenAI 'playbook' and highlight Microsoft's Copilot logs.
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Hartford Courant
Newspapers seek sanctions over allegations OpenAI deleted key evidence
Lawyers representing the New York Daily News and an array of news organizations suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing and distorting their reporters’ work have asked a Manhattan judge to sanction ChatGPT’s parent company, alleging the tech behemoth deleted millions of conversations they were required to hand over as evidence of copyright infringement. OpenAI continued to destroy output logs despite orders from two judges to preserve and provide th…
Ars Technica
Bioethics.comNews orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation. On Monday, US District Judge Sidney Stein denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that Magistrate Judge …
Court Orders OpenAI to Release 20M ChatGPT Logs in NYT Copyright Suit
Unearthing Digital Ghosts: The Battle Over OpenAI’s Deleted ChatGPT Logs In the escalating copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, news organizations led by The New York Times are intensifying their demands for access to vast troves of user data. A recent court ruling has compelled OpenAI to disclose 20 million anonymized ChatGPT conversation logs, but plaintiffs argue this is merely the tip of the iceberg. They now seek millions more, in…
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