OpenAI has requested a federal judge in New York to overturn an order requiring the company to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs.

The order is part of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news organizations, accusing OpenAI of using their content without permission to train ChatGPT.

The big picture: OpenAI argues that releasing the chat logs would compromise confidential user information despite anonymization and that 99.99% of the conversations are unrelated to the copyright claims. • The AI company expressed concern that “anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years” could have their personal chats exposed to The Times in what it describes as a speculative fishing expedition. • News outlets claim the logs are ess

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