Concealed evidence, misled court in copyright case: New York Times-led group seeks sanctions against OpenAI

A group of newspapers, including the New York Times and New York Daily News, asked a federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to sanction OpenAI in their high-stakes copyright dispute for allegedly lying to the court about its ability to search its systems for proof that it misused millions of their articles in AI training.

The newspapers told the court in a filing that OpenAI falsely told the court it could not search its large language models for their copyrighted material while hiding that it had done so “even before the first News Plaintiff filed suit.”