OpenAI Denied Request to Obtain New York Times’ AI Tool Logs

OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. can’t get access to user logs for an AI tool used by the New York Times Co. because the documents aren’t relevant or proportional to the needs of the AI copyright case they’re defending, a federal judge ruled.

The tech companies’ argument the Times’ use of its AI tool ChatExplorer is relevant to fair-use factors central to their case misconstrues what “use” is relevant to that analysis, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang said in an opinion entered Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The relevant “use” in the ...