OpenAI Pushes Back on NYT Request to Preserve User Output Data

OpenAI Inc. asked a federal judge to deny New York Times Co.'s request for an order forcing it to “preserve all user conversation outputs” for the ongoing copyright case, calling the ask “extraordinary” and burdensome.

“Such a sweeping change to OpenAI’s ordinary operations is disproportionate to the needs of the case,” the company said in a Thursday letter to Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.

News plaintiffs accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement made it “abundantly clear” that output logs are relevant to the claims in the lawsuits, the New York Times wrote in a Jan. 13 request in the US District ...