OpenAI fights NYT data preservation order, citing user privacy

Last month, a court said OpenAI had to preserve and segregate all output log data after the Times asked for the data to be preserved.

By  Storyboard18Jun 9, 2025 9:56 AM
OpenAI fights NYT data preservation order, citing user privacy
"We will fight any demand that compromises our users' privacy; this is a core principle," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X on Thursday.

OpenAI is appealing an order in a copyright case brought by the New York Times that requires it to preserve ChatGPT output data indefinitely, arguing that the order conflicts with privacy commitments it has made with users, as per reports.

Last month, a court said OpenAI had to preserve and segregate all output log data after the Times asked for the data to be preserved.

"We will fight any demand that compromises our users' privacy; this is a core principle," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X on Thursday.

"We think this (The Times demand) was an inappropriate request that sets a bad precedent."

The significance of ANI versus OpenAI

The newspaper sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, accusing them of using millions of its articles without permission to train the large language model behind its popular chatbot.

Stein said in an April court opinion that the Times had made a case that OpenAI and Microsoft were responsible for inducing users to infringe its copyrights.

The opinion explained an earlier order that rejected parts of an OpenAI and Microsoft motion to dismiss, saying that the Times' "numerous" and "widely publicized" examples of ChatGPT producing material from its articles justified allowing the claims to continue.

First Published on Jun 9, 2025 9:25 AM

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