The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and other media organizations have filed a motion asking the court to penalize OpenAI for allegedly withholding evidence in their ongoing copyright lawsuit, according to reports from The New York Times and TechCrunch.
According to TechCrunch, the news publishers claim that OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs. The New York Times reports that the media organizations are accusing OpenAI of withholding evidence in the case. This development represents an escalation in the lawsuit, with publishers now seeking sanctions against the AI company through this new motion, TechCrunch reports.
The lawsuit centers on allegations that OpenAI used copyrighted content from news organizations to train its ChatGPT model. The publishers’ latest motion suggests they believe OpenAI possesses tools or data that could demonstrate whether and how copyrighted journalism appears in the AI system’s outputs, but has failed to produce this evidence during the legal proceedings.