OpenAI Ducks Order to Disclose Confidential Counsel Messages (1)

OpenAI Inc. convinced a federal judge to overturn an order requiring the company to disclose confidential messages with its attorneys to authors and newspapers accusing it of violating copyrights by training AI models on their works.

The November order to turn over messages about the artificial intelligence company’s deletion of pirated copies of books is unsound because it was “clearly erroneous” or “contrary to law,” Judge Sidney H. Stein said in a decision issued Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

“Simply put, OpenAI did not disclose material protected by the attorney-client privilege,” Stein ...