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As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers inadvertently erased data the paper’s team spent more than 150 hours extracting as potential evidence.

OpenAI was able to recover much of the data, but the Times’ legal team says it’s still missing the original file names and folder structure. According to a declaration filed to the court Wednesday by Jennifer B. Maisel, a lawyer for the newspaper, this means the information “cannot be used to determine where the news plaintiffs’ copied articles” may have been incorporated into OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models.

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This situation highlights the complexity and challenges of handling sensitive data in the context of legal disputes, especially when it involves AI training models. The allegation that OpenAI's engineers inadvertently erased crucial evidence after The New York Times spent significant time extracting it adds another layer of tension to an already contentious lawsuit. While OpenAI was able to recover much of the data, the missing file names and folder structure could hinder the Times' ability to trace how its content was incorporated into OpenAI's models. This could significantly affect the outcome of the lawsuit, especially regarding claims of copyright infringement. It’s a reminder of the importance of data management, especially in legal contexts.

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