OpenAI accused of deleting potential evidence in New York Times copyright lawsuit

Engineers working for OpenAI accidentally erased potential evidence in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the AI startup by news publishers, The New York Times and Daily News.

As part of the legal proceedings, OpenAI had agreed to let the publishers’ lawyers look through its AI training datasets for any of their copyrighted content. From November 1, a team of lawyers and experts started searching OpenAI’s training data on virtual machines set up by the company.