New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

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OpenAI is accused by The New York Times and The Daily News of lying about its ability to search for copyrighted works in its training datasets and customer chat logs.
OpenAI previously claimed it couldn't search its training corpus and that doing so would be burdensome and raise privacy concerns.
In a deposition, an OpenAI engineer revealed the company had internally searched its training corpus and maintained a database of 78 million de-identified ChatGPT conversations.
OpenAI also allegedly implemented a 'Bloom' filter as part of 'Project Giraffe' to detect and record regurgitation of copyrighted content after the lawsuit was filed.
The plaintiffs claim OpenAI made it difficult to obtain information by submitting a heavily redacted, 'unusable' chat log sample and allegedly deleting outputs and substituting logs.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to discipline OpenAI, exclude its submitted evidence, and make OpenAI pay legal fees, while OpenAI denies the allegations, citing user privacy and fair use.

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