New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
The New York Times and The Daily News allege that OpenAI misled the court regarding its ability to search training datasets for copyrighted material. Court depositions suggest the company had internal tools and databases to track content regurgitation, contradicting previous claims of technical impossibility.
Why it matters
This case is a critical test for copyright law in the age of generative AI, potentially setting precedents for how AI companies must disclose their training data practices.
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year-old lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating copyright law by training its generative AI models on the Times’ content and reproducing that journalism in user outputs.
The report objectively summarizes the allegations made by the plaintiffs and the counter-arguments previously provided by the defendant.
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