New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Data Deletion Amidst Ongoing Copyright Lawsuit

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In a recent legal tussle involving The New York Times and OpenAI, attorneys representing the newspaper claim that a significant oversight has occurred. Allegedly, about a week’s worth of their search result data was unintentionally deleted by OpenAI engineers. This development surfaces amidst broader litigation concerning allegations that Microsoft and OpenAI have utilized copyright-protected news articles, including those from The New York Times, to train their AI language model, ChatGPT, without proper authorization. The erasure of such data could potentially impact the progression of the lawsuit and any ongoing investigations related to it.

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