Overview
- Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million anonymized chat transcripts with privacy safeguards, setting a Friday deadline.
- OpenAI told the court the production would expose confidential user information and that 99.99% of the logs are unrelated to the infringement claims.
- The New York Times and other outlets seek the data to test whether ChatGPT reproduced their content and to counter OpenAI’s assertion that they manipulated outputs.
- OpenAI’s chief information security officer said handing over the trove would turn over tens of millions of highly personal conversations to Times lawyers.
- If its bid to reverse the order fails, OpenAI says it will remove personally identifying details and restrict review to plaintiffs’ retained technical experts under tight controls.