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AI Firm Accused of Hiding Copyright Evidence
10 Jul
Summary
- OpenAI allegedly misled courts about its data search capabilities.
- Key evidence regarding copyrighted material was reportedly concealed.
- The company is accused of manipulating discovery in a copyright lawsuit.
An AI company faces accusations of misleading courts regarding its capacity to search customer chat logs and training datasets for copyrighted material. This development marks a significant escalation in an ongoing two-year lawsuit that alleges copyright law violations.
During a recent court-ordered deposition, an OpenAI data privacy engineer allegedly revealed that the company had indeed conducted internal searches of its training corpus for copyrighted journalism. Furthermore, it's claimed that OpenAI amassed a large database of de-identified ChatGPT conversations before the lawsuit was filed, purportedly to assess infringement levels.
Plaintiffs argue that OpenAI has made obtaining crucial information unnecessarily difficult. They allege the company manipulated the discovery process, including providing a highly redacted sample of chat logs and deleting billions of outputs after a preservation order was issued.
As a result, the plaintiffs are seeking court sanctions against OpenAI. They want the court to disallow the submitted chat log sample, accept their claims of significant content regurgitation as fact, and order OpenAI to pay legal fees for chasing down the evidence.
