OpenAI appeals data preservation order in NYT copyright case

Last month, a court said OpenAI had to preserve and segregate all output log data after the Times asked for the data to be preserved.

U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein was asked to vacate the May data preservation order on June 3, a court filing showed.

The newspaper sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, accusing them of using millions of its articles without permission to train the large language model behind its popular chatbot.

Stein said in an April court opinion that the Times had made a case that OpenAI and Microsoft were responsible for inducing users to infringe its copyrights.

The opinion explained an earlier order that rejected parts of an OpenAI and Microsoft motion to dismiss, saying that the Times’ “numerous” and “widely publicized” examples of ChatGPT producing material from its articles justified allowing the claims to continue.