--- title: New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT... description: The New York Times and The Daily News have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the company concealed evidence in their ongoing copyright... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-york-times-says-openai-hid-evidence-in-chatgpt-copyright-trial-fgbf1wmuq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial | daily.dev og:description: The New York Times and The Daily News have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the company concealed evidence in their ongoing copyright... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-york-times-says-openai-hid-evidence-in-chatgpt-copyright-trial-fgbf1wmuq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fGbF1wmuq.png og:image:alt: New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The New York Times and The Daily News have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the company concealed evidence in their ongoing copyright lawsuit. A court-ordered deposition of an OpenAI data privacy engineer allegedly revealed that OpenAI had already conducted internal searches of its training corpus for copyrighted journalism and maintained a database of 78 million de-identified ChatGPT conversations to assess infringement. OpenAI also allegedly built a 'Bloom' filter tool called 'Project Giraffe' to detect output regurgitation shortly after the lawsuit was filed. Despite claiming it lacked the ability to search its data, OpenAI allegedly submitted a heavily redacted and unusable chat log sample, deleted billions of outputs in violation of a court preservation order, and substituted millions of logs. The plaintiffs are asking the court to sanction OpenAI, bar it from using the chat log sample as evidence, and require it to pay legal fees. OpenAI denies the allegations, framing the dispute as an attempt to access private user data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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