Overview
- Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang on Dec. 3 denied OpenAI’s bid to reconsider her November ruling and left in place the production order.
- The logs must be de‑identified and produced within seven days of completion, with access restricted to attorneys’ eyes only and additional safeguards.
- The court deemed the sample clearly relevant and proportional, noting it is less than 0.05% of the tens of billions of consumer output logs retained.
- News publishers including the New York Times, Tribune and MediaNews Group titles, The Intercept, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and Ziff Davis seek to test outputs for partial or verbatim reproductions.
- OpenAI has appealed to District Judge Sidney Stein, arguing the demand overreaches on user privacy and that the vast majority of logs are irrelevant.