OpenAI developers mistakenly destroyed information sought by the New York Times in their copyright case against the AI business and its patron, Microsoft.
This data was intended to be used in court as prospective evidence according to a report from WIRED.
In a letter to the judge presiding over the case, lawyers for the New York Times and the New York Daily News stated that a large number of evidentiary files went missing while the attorneys were reviewing them.
Earlier this month, the firm furnished the publishers’ solicitors with two enormous caches of training data files from the newspapers, supporting its argument that because the stories were publicly published, it was permissible to use them to train AI models.
Although the majority of the data was retrieved, the NYT legal team reports that the original file names and folder structure were lost.
As a result, it is impossible to tell where and how OpenAI may have used the pirated material.
The New York Times launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023.
The magazine accused both corporations of utilising their materials to train artificial intelligence (AI).
Newsng gathered that the AI business denied the lawsuit’s validity.
Currently, the case is in the discovery stage, with all parties submitting the necessary documents to collect evidence.
We earlier reported that Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has revived a legal action against OpenAI, arguing that the organisation abandoned its initial non-profit goal.
