OpenAI Moves to Protect Its IP in Copyright Suit Discovery Row

OpenAI Inc. asked a judge to block a computer scientist assisting the plaintiffs in newspapers’ copyright lawsuit against it from viewing large language model training data at issue in the case because he works at a competing AI company.

Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, a “retained consultant” for eight newspapers suing the tech giant, is also the chief scientific officer of Theodora AI, a company that works in the same space as OpenAI, according to a letter filed by OpenAI’s attorneys on Oct. 18 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Both companies help “fine-tune” large ...