NYT, Others Seek Sanctions Against OpenAI Over Copyright
The publishers say OpenAI hid and deleted evidence tied to millions of articles and ChatGPT logs, and seek penalties for discovery misconduct.
- Media outlets including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Daily News filed a motion Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court seeking 'serious sanctions' against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging 'discovery misconduct' and evidence destruction.
- OpenAI expert John Vincent 'Vinnie' Monaco 'finally revealed' in an April deposition that the company engaged in a 'campaign of deception' regarding its ability to search training datasets for copyrighted content.
- Attorney Steven Lieberman said OpenAI has been 'making misrepresentations' for two years about its search capabilities, while investigators pieced together over 80 million responses from ChatGPT users to uncover evidence.
- Plaintiffs requested attorney fees for securing 'improperly withheld' evidence and special jury instructions ensuring jurors understand OpenAI intentionally destroyed data in violation of court preservation orders.
- This trial contrasts with Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with book authors, testing whether training AI on copyrighted works constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law in a landmark case shaping the news industry.
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New York Times alleges OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
New Delhi: The New York Times and The New York Daily News have escalated their two-year copyright battle with OpenAI, filing a motion in a Manhattan federal court asking the judge to sanction the AI company for allegedly withholding and destroying evidence during discovery. What is the case, exactly? The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023, arguing that OpenAI trained ChatGPT on the Times' journalism without permission or p…
A group of newspapers yesterday asked a Manhattan federal court to impose sanctions on OpenAI in the context of its high-risk copyright litigation, claiming that the company lied to the court about its ability to search its systems for evidence that it misused millions of its articles in artificial intelligence training (AI).
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Lincoln Journal StarNewspapers ask court to sanction OpenAI
A group of newspapers including the New York Times and New York Daily News asked a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to sanction OpenAI in their highstakes copyright dispute for allegedly lying to the court about its ability to…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ko Il-hwan = U.S. media outlets, including The New York Times (NYT), have reported to the court that the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI maliciously obstructed the lawsuit...
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