OpenAI Fails To Pare Back Order To Preserve User Data in IP Suit

OpenAI Inc. failed yet another attempt to ward off an order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT outputs from user interactions for plaintiffs in a copyright case involving AI training.

At an oral argument Thursday, Judge Sidney H. Stein denied OpenAI’s request for reconsideration of Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang’s data preservation order. The judge ruled it was a “permissible inference” that a certain percentage of ChatGPT users would want to delete data because they may be using the AI model to infringe copyrights.

Wang issued the order in May and denied OpenAI’s request for reconsideration a few days later. ...