News Outlets Seek Sanctions Over OpenAI's Deletion of Billions of ChatGPT Responses
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Updated · South Florida Sun Sentinel · Jul 9
News Outlets Seek Sanctions Over OpenAI's Deletion of Billions of ChatGPT Responses
3 articles · Updated · South Florida Sun Sentinel · Jul 9
Summary
A new court motion says The New York Times, the Sun Sentinel and other publishers want “serious sanctions” after OpenAI allegedly deleted billions of ChatGPT responses and millions of chat histories despite preservation orders.
An April re-deposition of OpenAI expert John Vincent Monaco allegedly revealed the company could search for copyrighted news in training data and output logs, undercutting its repeated claims to the court that such searches were not possible.
The publishers say that alleged deception prolonged discovery and forced them to reconstruct evidence from more than 80 million ChatGPT responses and Project Giraffe materials while OpenAI argued user-privacy concerns and blamed news outputs on a “rare bug.”
The motion seeks monetary penalties, special jury instructions and other remedies in the consolidated copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft, which centers on claims that ChatGPT copied and distorted journalism, diverting readers from publishers.