New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

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. "We disagree with the characterizations made and will file our response soon," OpenAI spokesperson Jason Deutrom told WIRED in a statement. The New York Times declined to comment.