Overview
- On January 5, District Judge Sidney Stein affirmed an order requiring OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified ChatGPT logs, rejecting privacy objections as adequately addressed by safeguards.
- News plaintiffs allege OpenAI deleted or substituted millions of logs selected for production and continued routine destruction practices despite preservation directives.
- Filings say OpenAI changed conversation identifiers through hashing and applied billions of redactions that obscured outlet names and bylines, impairing searchability and analysis.
- Plaintiffs ask for sanctions, a preservation order, an evidentiary hearing, and a detailed accounting of what was destroyed and whether it can be restored.
- They also seek a court order compelling Microsoft to promptly produce Copilot logs in a searchable, remotely accessible format, proposing a January 9 deadline.