OpenAI Erases Key Data in New York Times Copyright Case

OpenAI "Accidentally" Deleted Evidence From Its New York Times Lawsuit

File Error OpenAI made a major oopsie when its engineers accidentally deleted a bunch of evidence sought by the New York Times in its copyright lawsuit against the AI firm and its benefactor Microsoft. In a letter to the judge presiding over the suit, lawyers for the NYT and the New York Daily News said that a ton of evidentiary files went missing while the attorneys were perusing them. Earlier this month, the firm provided the publishers' attor…

The New York Times says OpenAI deleted evidence in its copyright lawsuit

Stephen Hawking told Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver a chilling but memorable hypothetical story a decade ago about the potential dangers of AI. The gist is a group of scientists build a superintelligent computer and ask it, “Is there a God?” The computer answers, “There is now” and a bolt of lightning zaps the plug preventing it from being shut down. Let’s hope that’s not what happened with OpenAI and some missing evidence from the New York Tim…

OpenAI deleted NYT copyright case evidence, say lawyers

Probably not intentional, but '150 person-hours' of work were still lost

Oops! OpenAI just deleted important legal data in a lawsuit from The New York Times

OpenAI accidentally erased a drive full of evidence gathered by lawyers for The New York Times and other news organizations.

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence - Overpasses For America

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers inadvertently erased data the paper’s team spent more than 150 hours extracting as potential evidence. OpenAI was able to recover much of the data, but the Times’ legal team says it’s still missing the original file names and folder structur…

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.