OpenAI faces allegations of evidence withholding in copyright lawsuit from New York Times

Jul 9, 2026

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OpenAI is accused of hiding evidence related to its training data and customer chat logs in a copyright lawsuit initiated by the New York Times and The Daily News. The plaintiffs claim that OpenAI has not been transparent about its internal searches for copyrighted material and is seeking court sanctions against the company.

The New York Times and The Daily News allege that OpenAI misrepresented its ability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for copyrighted content in an ongoing lawsuit regarding copyright violations.
OpenAI has claimed it could not search its training corpus and that retrieving chat logs would raise privacy concerns. However, a deposition revealed that OpenAI had conducted internal searches prior to the lawsuit.
OpenAI reportedly created a database of around 78 million de-identified ChatGPT conversations to assess copyright infringement and implemented a tool to track content reproduction shortly after the lawsuit was filed.
The plaintiffs argue that OpenAI's provided sample of chat logs was heavily redacted and unusable, and they claim the company deleted billions of outputs in violation of a court order.
The plaintiffs are requesting court sanctions against OpenAI for allegedly withholding evidence and are asking the court to accept certain facts regarding content reproduction.
An OpenAI spokesperson denied the allegations, asserting that the Times is attempting to invade user privacy as their case weakens.

OpenAI faces allegations of evidence withholding in copyright lawsuit from New York Times

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