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OpenAI, news outlets dispute proper scope of discovery into core ChatGPT logs

By Emma Whitford ( October 16, 2025, 20:40 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI has backpedaled on production of 20 million records of ChatGPT conversations and should “immediately” turn over the documents, news outlets said Wednesday, in the latest dispute between the parties that sees OpenAI challenging a discovery request in the name of user privacy. The anonymized conversations — the scope of which OpenAI hopes to narrow — could constitute core evidence as the outlets develop their copyright cases against OpenAI and its investor Microsoft.OpenAI has backpedaled on its commitment to produce records of 20 million ChatGPT conversations generated between late 2022 and late 2024 and should “immediately” produce them, news outlets told a US federal magistrate judge late Wednesday, in the latest dispute between the parties that has seen OpenAI challenge a discovery request in the name of user privacy....

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