OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case

A federal judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in its copyright battle with the New York Times and other outlets. Reuters reports: U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in a decision made public on Wednesday said that the 20 million logs were relevant to the outlets' claims and that handing them over would not risk violating users' privacy. The judge rejected OpenAI's privacy-related objections to an earlier order requiring the artificial intelligence startup to submit the records as evidence. 'There are multiple layers of protection in this case precisely because of the highly sensitive and private nature of much of the discovery,' Wang said.

An OpenAI spokesperson on Wednesday cited an earlier blog post from the company's Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey, which said the Times' demand for the chat logs 'disregards long-standing privacy protections' and 'breaks with common-sense security practices.' OpenAI has separately appealed Wang's order to the case's presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein.

A group of newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is also involved in the lawsuit. MediaNews Group executive editor Frank Pine said in a statement on Wednesday that OpenAI's leadership was 'hallucinating when they thought they could get away with withholding evidence about how their business model relies on stealing from hardworking journalists.'

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