Authors Escape OpenAI Bid for Entirety of ChatGPT Testing Data

Authors accusing OpenAI Inc. of copyright infringement persuaded a federal judge to partly overturn an order requiring them to share all of the methodology and data they used to test the flagship ChatGPT chatbot in preparation for their lawsuit.

The author-plaintiffs still must disclose the prompts, outputs, and account settings that resulted in the results they said in their complaint demonstrate infringement, but they won’t have to turn over testing data for queries that didn’t improperly reproduce their works, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin wrote in an order issued Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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