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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
TL;DR
- The New York Times and The Daily News allege OpenAI lied about its inability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for copyrighted works.
- Depositions suggest OpenAI had internal tools and databases to identify copyrighted journalism and track regurgitation in ChatGPT outputs.
- OpenAI had amassed a database of 78 million de-identified ChatGPT conversations for internal evaluation before the lawsuit.
- The plaintiffs claim OpenAI deleted outputs and substituted logs in the sample provided to the court, making it unusable.
- The publishers are seeking sanctions against OpenAI, including preventing them from using the chat log sample as evidence and accepting claims of major regurgitation as fact.