U.S. Court Orders OpenAI to Disclose ChatGPT User Data in Copyright Case

According to ChainCatcher, a U.S. federal judge, Ona T. Wang, has denied OpenAI's request to limit evidence disclosure, mandating the company to provide The New York Times with approximately 20 million anonymized ChatGPT user conversation records. The court deemed these records crucial for determining whether ChatGPT replicated content protected by The New York Times' copyright and found them proportionate to the case's needs. Despite OpenAI's concerns over user privacy, the judge emphasized that privacy considerations are merely one factor in the proportionality analysis and cannot outweigh the clear relevance and minimal burden of the data in question.