OpenAI Should Turn Over Execs’ Social DMs and Texts, Authors Say

OpenAI Inc. should turn over executives’ social media and text messages—including those of CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman—in discovery, authors accusing the company and partner Microsoft Corp. of copyright infringement told a federal judge.

The OpenAI executives’ posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, make it clear that they all used social media for work and their accounts should be searched for relevant messages, the Authors Guild and author plaintiffs wrote in a Wednesday letter to Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The dispute marks the latest ...