The court orders OpenAI to submit 20 million ChatGPT user logs to The New York Times

According to Decrypt, U.S. District Judge Ona T. Wang rejected OpenAI's request to limit evidence disclosure, ordering the company to provide approximately 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user conversation records to The New York Times. The court found that this data is crucial for proving whether ChatGPT has copied content protected by copyright from The New York Times and is "proportional to the needs of the case."

Although OpenAI expressed concerns about user privacy, the judge noted that privacy considerations "are just one factor in the proportionality analysis and cannot dominate when there is a clear relevance and minimal burden."