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OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit


In a court filing, lawyers for The NY Times and Daily news say that OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence against it.

Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for copyrighted content in its training data sets. However, because the folder structure and file names were “irretrievably” lost, the recovered data “cannot be used to determine where the news plaintiffs’ copied articles were used to build [OpenAI’s] models,” per the letter. “The news plaintiffs learned only yesterday that the recovered data is unusable and that an entire week’s worth of its experts’ and lawyers’ work must be re-done, which is why this supplemental letter is being filed today.”

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