Several news outlets, including the New York Times (NYT), asked a federal judge on Thursday, July 9, to sanction OpenAI for allegedly withholding evidence in a long-running copyright dispute, according to court filings reviewed by TechCrunch.
The newspapers accused the artificial intelligence (AI) company of deliberately failing to preserve training data and output logs that could show how ChatGPT reproduces their copyrighted journalism. The outlets claim that OpenAI misled the court about its ability to search its own training corpus and customer chat logs. According to the filing, OpenAI “intentionally hid its discovery capabilities” for two years, a charge that represents the latest escalation in a legal battle that began with a December 2023 lawsuit.
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