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OpenAI, news outlets at loggerheads over ChatGPT sampling in US copyright case

By Emma Whitford ( September 22, 2025, 20:26 GMT | Insight) -- The largely-redacted results of a data sampling exercise by OpenAI and news outlets including the New York Times show the parties are still bogged down in a discovery dispute that for months has forced OpenAI to preserve user chats marked for deletion. The dispute is part of closely-watched federal lawsuits in New York federal court, in which news outlets are accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of using their content to train large language models, in violation of US Copyright Law. The largely-redacted results of a data sampling exercise by OpenAI and news outlets including the New York Times show the parties are still bogged down in a discovery dispute that for months has forced OpenAI to preserve user chats marked for deletion....

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