OpenAI Faces Lawsuit Over Deleted Chat Logs

In an escalating copyright lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York, media plaintiffs led by The New York Times are pressing OpenAI for access to deleted ChatGPT conversation logs after a judge ordered production of 20 million anonymized logs. Plaintiffs say deleted logs could reveal verbatim copyrighted content and now seek millions more; OpenAI argues privacy and technical infeasibility and has appealed citing GDPR. The dispute could set precedents for data preservation and AI accountability.