OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI is facing calls for "serious sanctions" after fighting to keep news organizations from snooping through millions of logs to find evidence of users skirting their paywalls by prompting ChatGPT to regurgitate their articles. This evidence is considered among the most important to both sides, potentially either dooming OpenAI as an infringer or exonerating its chatbot technology as a transformative fair use of news sites' content. In a sanctions motion Thursday, news organizations suing Open
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News organizations suing an AI firm over copyright infringement have accused the company of repeatedly lying to the court about its technical ability to search user logs for evidence of copied content. An engineer's deposition revealed the company had already conducted large-scale searches of these logs years earlier while claiming such searches were infeasible and burdensome. The news plaintiffs say this concealment withheld crucial evidence that could prove infringement, while the AI firm contends that producing these logs would violate user privacy and that the lawsuit's claims are weakening. The court's ability to evaluate fair use claims in the case may depend on access to the log samples that were allegedly hidden.
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