OpenAI to Appeal Ruling to Turn Over ChatGPT User Logs

Nov. 12, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

OpenAI says it’s asking a court to reject a demand from the New York Times to turn over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations as part of a copyright lawsuit brought by the publisher against the company.

  • OpenAI to comply with order to produce logs at this time, but it “strongly disagrees” the data is relevant to the case and is “continuing to appeal”
  • The 20 million user conversations were randomly sampled from Dec. 2022 to Nov. 2024
    • This does not impact ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT Business (formerly “Team”) customers or API customers
    • All affected chats are being run through ...



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