OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled
OpenAI loses legal fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret OpenAI loses legal fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret A US judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over 20 million anonymised ChatGPT logs in the New York Times copyright case
OpenAI v. New York Times stopped being “just” a copyright case the . . . The preservation order: “keep everything” On May 13, 2025, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI to “preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going-forward basis until further order of the Court ” (cdn arstechnica net) Plain English: OpenAI had to stop deleting ChatGPT output logs under its normal policies, including chats users had explicitly
OpenAI Loses Fight to Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret in Copyright Case In a ruling with far-reaching implications for the future of artificial intelligence, digital privacy, and copyright law, a U S federal judge has ordered OpenAI to turn over a massive trove of ChatGPT conversation logs to plaintiffs in an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit