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OpenAI Offers 20 Million User Chats In ChatGPT Lawsuit. NYT Wants 120 Million.
mercredi 6 août 2025, 02:02 , par Slashdot
![]() Previously, OpenAI had vowed to stop what it deemed was the NYT's attempt to conduct 'mass surveillance' of ChatGPT users. But ultimately, OpenAI lost its fight to keep news plaintiffs away from all ChatGPT logs. After that loss, OpenAI appears to have pivoted and is now doing everything in its power to limit the number of logs accessed in the case -- short of settling -- as its customers fretted over serious privacy concerns. For the most vulnerable users, the lawsuit threatened to expose ChatGPT outputs from sensitive chats that OpenAI had previously promised would be deleted. Most recently, OpenAI floated a compromise, asking the court to agree that news organizations didn't need to search all ChatGPT logs. The AI company cited the 'only expert' who has so far weighed in on what could be a statistically relevant, appropriate sample size -- computer science researcher Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. He suggested that a sample of 20 million logs would be sufficient to determine how frequently ChatGPT users may be using the chatbot to regurgitate articles and circumvent news sites' paywalls. But the NYT and other news organizations rejected the compromise, OpenAI said in a filing (PDF) yesterday. Instead, news plaintiffs have made what OpenAI said was an 'extraordinary request that OpenAI produce the individual log files of 120 million ChatGPT consumer conversations.' That's six times more data than Berg-Kirkpatrick recommended, OpenAI argued. Complying with the request threatens to 'increase the scope of user privacy concerns' by delaying the outcome of the case 'by months,' OpenAI argued. If the request is granted, it would likely trouble many users by extending the amount of time that users' deleted chats will be stored and potentially making them vulnerable to a breach or leak. As negotiations potentially end this week, OpenAI's co-defendant, Microsoft, has picked its own fight with the NYT over its internal ChatGPT equivalent tool that could potentially push the NYT to settle the disputes over ChatGPT logs. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/2130255/openai-offers-20-million-user-chats-in-chatgpt-lawsu...
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