"Last week, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI to turn over a sample of 20 million chat logs as part of the sprawling multidistrict litigation where publishers are suing AI companies-a mess of consolidated cases that kicked off with the NY Times' lawsuit against OpenAI. Judge Wang dismissed OpenAI's privacy concerns, apparently convinced that "anonymization" solves everything. Even if you hate OpenAI and everything it stands for, and hope that the news orgs bring it to its knees, this should scare you. A lot."
"News Plaintiffs demand that OpenAI hand over the entire 20M log sample "in readily searchable format" via a "hard drive or [] dedicated private cloud." ECF 656 at 3. That would include logs that are neither relevant nor responsive-indeed, News Plaintiffs concede that at least 99.99% of the logs are irrelevant to their claims. OpenAI has never agreed to such a process, which is wildly disproportionate to the needs of the case and exposes private user chats for no reasonable litigation purpose."
Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ordered OpenAI to produce a 20 million–chat sample to plaintiffs in a consolidated lawsuit brought by publishers. The targeted users received no notice and have no ability to contest disclosure. The court discounted OpenAI's privacy objections by relying on anonymization. News plaintiffs requested the full 20M sample in a readily searchable format on physical or private-cloud media, while conceding that at least 99.99% of the logs are irrelevant. OpenAI argues that producing massive, irrelevant private chats is wildly disproportionate and would unnecessarily expose sensitive user conversations, while plaintiffs seek protective treatment for their own logs.
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