New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
3 hours ago
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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.