OpenAI Can’t Shield ‘Sensitive’ Files From Public Eye in IP Suit

A federal judge denied OpenAI’s attempt to keep confidential a court filing containing information related to ChatGPT’s training methods in a copyright lawsuit filed by several newspapers.

In a Tuesday order, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang denied the news publisher plaintiffs and OpenAI’s motions to seal parts of court filings that contain, in OpenAI’s words, “highly sensitive technological markers that pose data security threats” and “proprietary information concerning OpenAI’s technology and business.”

The filings that escaped seal in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York revolve around the plaintiffs’ motion to compel OpenAI to preserve ...