The New York Times says OpenAI deleted evidence in its copyright lawsuit

NYT accuses OpenAI of deleting crucial evidence in a copyright lawsuit over article plagiarism.

: The New York Times has accused OpenAI of deleting key evidence in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The evidence concerns OpenAI's AI models allegedly plagiarizing NYT articles. Though OpenAI managed to recover some data, crucial structural information remains missing. The NYT's legal team had to reconstruct their research from scratch.

The New York Times has raised serious allegations against OpenAI, claiming that crucial evidence was deleted in an ongoing copyright lawsuit. The lawsuit involves accusations of OpenAI's AI models plagiarizing published articles from the NYT.

Wired reported that the deletion occurred due to a supposed error by OpenAI's engineers who erased training data, which had been scrupulously gathered by the NYT. While OpenAI has restored some data, the original file names and folder structures remain missing, crucial for tracing back the plagiarism pattern.

Despite these claims, OpenAI has disagreed with the NYT's assertions and plans to file a response. Although OpenAI provided a sandbox for the NYT's legal team to analyze the data, they spent over 150 hours investigating before the data was lost. The NYT's legal team had to painstakingly recreate their work.

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