New York Daily News and Other Outlets Ask Judge to Reject OpenAI Effort to Keep Deleting Data
- In April 2024, a group of newspapers connected to MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing launched a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using their news content to train AI systems and produce material without providing payment.
- The lawsuit followed a December 2023 suit by The New York Times and claims that OpenAI's use of data violates copyrights despite the company arguing fair use protections apply.
- Manhattan Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI in May 2024 to preserve output logs and related data after the news organizations accused OpenAI of deleting relevant data that could prove infringement.
- OpenAI requested to vacate Wang's order, calling it a 'massive burden' that infringes on user privacy while the news lawyers stated the data is crucial to prove OpenAI's liability and noted OpenAI's own recognition of its relevance.
- The case highlights ongoing tensions over AI training data use and may influence how copyright law is applied to generative AI products amid concerns about accountability and fair competition.
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New York Daily News and other outlets ask judge to reject OpenAI effort to keep deleting data
Lawyers for the Daily News, The New York Times and other news outlets suing ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, have asked a Manhattan judge to reject an effort by the technology giant to continue deleting data that could prove it stole journalists’ work. Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Ona Wang last month ordered OpenAI to preserve its output logs and any related information slated for deletion after the news outlets accused the tech company o…
The post Deleting Impossible: OpenAI Must Save ChatGPT Data Permanently was first published in the online magazine BASIC thinking. About our newsletter UPDATE you start the day well informed every morning. A U.S. court has decided that OpenAI must store all logs of ChatGPT permanently in the future – including those that previously deleted users. Background is an ongoing lawsuit with the New York Times, for which the data should be secured as po…
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