Court Orders OpenAI to Submit 20 Million ChatGPT User Logs to The New York Times

According to Jinse Finance, citing Decrypt, U.S. Federal Judge Ona T. Wang has rejected OpenAI’s request to limit evidence disclosure and ordered the company to provide The New York Times with approximately 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user conversation records. The court found that this data is crucial to determining whether ChatGPT has reproduced content protected by The New York Times’ copyrights and is “proportional to the needs of the case.” While OpenAI expressed concerns about user privacy, the judge noted that privacy considerations are “only one factor in the proportionality analysis and cannot outweigh clear relevance and minimal burden.”