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OpenAI, news outlets get green light to proceed with chat sampling plan

By Emma Whitford ( August 19, 2025, 21:30 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI and news outlets including the New York Times have reached an agreement on how to sample millions of rows of ChatGPT conversation data, while the artificial intelligence heavyweight remains under court order to preserve most user chats marked for deletion. Under the terms of the agreement, the news outlets will receive hit counts for various keywords, isolated from a specific chat or identifiable user. OpenAI and news outlets including the New York Times have reached an agreement today on how to sample millions of rows of ChatGPT conversation data, while the artificial intelligence heavyweight remains under court order to preserve most user chats marked for deletion....

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