{"id":5739,"date":"2025-11-13T06:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:41:19","slug":"openai-challenges-court-order-to-hand-over-20-million-chatgpt-logs-in-nyt-copyright-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/openai-challenges-court-order-to-hand-over-20-million-chatgpt-logs-in-nyt-copyright-case\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Challenges Court Order to Hand Over 20 Million ChatGPT Logs in NYT Copyright Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has petitioned a federal judge in New York to overturn a ruling that compels the company to provide 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat records as part of an ongoing copyright dispute with <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i> (NYT.N) and several other media organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The artificial intelligence firm argued that complying with the order would compromise user confidentiality and expose private conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its court filing, <\/span>OpenAI<\/span><\/a> maintained that the vast majority of the requested data \u2014 \u201c99.99%\u201d of it \u2014 is unrelated to the copyright allegations being made.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear: anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years must now face the possibility that their personal conversations will be handed over to The Times to sift through at will in a speculative fishing expedition,\u201d the company stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also in the headlines: <\/b>Intel\u2019s CEO Lip-Bu Tan Takes Charge of AI Division After CTO Joins OpenAI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dispute Over Copyright Use and Data Privacy<\/b><\/h2>\n

The <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> and its co-plaintiffs contend that the chat records are crucial for determining whether ChatGPT has replicated portions of their copyrighted material.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They also claim that the data could disprove OpenAI\u2019s argument that journalists \u201chacked\u201d the chatbot\u2019s responses to fabricate evidence. The lawsuit alleges that <\/span>OpenAI <\/span><\/a>improperly used their articles to train ChatGPT and other AI models.<\/span><\/p>\n

Magistrate Judge Ona Wang, who issued the order, stated that user privacy would remain safeguarded through the company\u2019s \u201cexhaustive de-identification\u201d process and additional protective measures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The court set a Friday deadline for OpenAI to submit the anonymized transcripts.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a blog post released Wednesday, OpenAI\u2019s Chief Information Security Officer, Dane Stuckey, said that surrendering the logs would violate privacy and security obligations, forcing the company to \u201cturn over tens of millions of highly personal conversations from people who have no connection to the Times\u2019 baseless lawsuit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> spokesperson, however, dismissed OpenAI\u2019s claims, saying the company\u2019s blog post \u201cpurposely misleads its users and omits the facts.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The spokesperson added, \u201cNo ChatGPT user\u2019s privacy is at risk. The court ordered OpenAI to provide a sample of chats, anonymized by OpenAI itself, under a legal protective order.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This dispute is part of a growing wave of legal battles targeting technology companies accused of using copyrighted material to train their artificial intelligence systems without proper authorization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read next: <\/b>FedEx Worker Wins Appeal in Leave Case as Company Plans Major Freight Spin-Off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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OpenAI has petitioned a federal judge in New York to overturn a ruling that compels the company to provide 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat records as part of an ongoing copyright dispute with The New York Times (NYT.N) and several other media organizations.\u00a0 The artificial intelligence firm argued that complying with the order would compromise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-news"],"yoast_head":"\nOpenAI Challenges Court Order to Hand Over 20 Million ChatGPT Logs in NYT Copyright Case<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"OpenAI is pushing back against a court order demanding 20 million 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