NYT vs. OpenAI: What the ChatGPT Log Ruling Means for Your Data

The most prominent early worry about AI technology, copyright infringement, has not gone away. Even as much of the conversation has shifted to other issues.

OpenAI has been fighting the New York Times lawsuit that sought to access ChatGPT logs, and it looks like they have now lost the effort on resisting this data release.

One very interesting tidbit in this report from Ars Technica, that I haven't seen elsewhere, is that Microsoft gave up this fight first, already agreeing to release 8.1m Copilot logs as part of this effort (although with a fuzzy timeline).

Given that this action originally targeted Bing Chat, my assumption is this relates to consumer Microsoft Copilot logs rather than Microsoft 365 Copilot, the data for which is held under an entirely different set of terms.

Are you concerned about your ChatGPT or Copilot logs, albeit anonymized, being passed about as evidence in these actions?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/news-orgs-want-openai-to-dig-up-millions-of-deleted-chatgpt-logs/

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