Court orders OpenAI to submit 20 million ChatGPT user logs to The New York Times

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, U.S. federal judge Ona T. Wang has rejected OpenAI's request to restrict evidence disclosure, requiring the company to provide The New York Times with approximately 20 million anonymized ChatGPT user conversation records. The court held that these data are crucial to determining whether ChatGPT has reproduced content protected by The New York Times' copyright, and are "proportional to the needs of the case."

Although OpenAI expressed concerns about user privacy, the judge pointed out that privacy considerations are "only one factor in the proportionality analysis and cannot predominate where there is clear relevance and minimal burden."