OpenAI Told the Court It Couldn't Search ChatGPT Logs, Then an Employee Said Otherwise

The New York Times and New York Daily News asked a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, alleging the company swore it could not search ChatGPT logs for their stolen articles while it had already run those exact searches. The newspapers told the court in a filing that OpenAI falsely told the court it could not search its large language models for their copyrighted material while hiding that it had done so “even before the first News Plaintiff filed suit.” The alleged cleanup was thorough, since the newspapers said that OpenAI had also deleted billions of relevant ChatGPT conversations or made them unsearchable. A company that scraped the whole internet suddenly developing amnesia about its own hard drive is the most convenient memory loss in the history of discovery. These remain allegations in a pending motion, and OpenAI has denied the underlying infringement claims. Reuters on the sanctions motion