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New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence
As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.
According to a declaration filed to the court Wednesday by Jennifer B. Maisel, a lawyer for the newspaper, this means the information “cannot be used to determine where the news plaintiffs’ copied articles” may have been incorporated into OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models. The lawyers noted that they had “no reason to believe” that the deletion was “intentional.” In emails submitted as an exhibit along with Maisel’s letter, OpenAI counsel Tom Gorman referred to the data erasure as a “glitch.” As this case and others like it wind their way through the courts, OpenAI is pursuing content licensing deals with other publishers, including The Atlantic, Axel Springer, Vox Media, and WIRED parent company Condé Nast.
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