Court wants OpenAI to share 20 million ChatGPT conversations; company responds with a ‘warning’

OpenAI is pushing back against a federal court order that would force it to turn over 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs to the New York Times in a copyright infringement battle. In a court filing, the artificial intelligence company called the demand a sweeping invasion of user privacy that goes far beyond what’s needed to resolve the lawsuit. The vast majority of these logs—more than 99.99%—bear no connection to the copyright dispute, OpenAI argues. The company warns that complying would expose intimate exchanges from millions of users caught in the crossfire of a legal fight that has nothing to do with them. The Times sued OpenAI for allegedly using its articles without permission to train ChatGPT.

The logs aren’t isolated prompts and responses—they’re entire conversations with dozens of back-and-forth exchanges, randomly sampled from two years of ChatGPT use.