Seventeen news publishers filed a motion Thursday accusing OpenAI of withholding and destroying evidence in ongoing copyright lawsuits.
The motion, led by The New York Times and including Ziff Davis and the New York Daily News, claims OpenAI obstructed discovery by hiding datasets and output logs from ChatGPT.
Plaintiffs allege that OpenAI misled the court for two years about its ability to search millions of logs, including samples of 10 million and 78 million conversations that had already been de-identified.
OpenAI denies the allegations and says the motion is an attempt to invade user privacy while the publishers' case weakens.
The lawsuits, which began in 2023, center on whether OpenAI used copyrighted news content to train its AI models without permission.
