## OpenAI forced to recover ChatGPT logs It appears that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement. Now, OpenAI faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats, long thought of as untouchable in the litigation. A US District Judge has denied objections that OpenAI raised, claiming that a Magistrate Judge failed to adequately balance privacy interests of ChatGPT users who are not involved in the litigation when ordering OpenAI to produce 20 million logs. OpenAI wanted to run search terms to find potentially infringing outputs in the sample. That way, news plaintiffs would only get access to chats that were relevant to its case. However, this proposal was rejected. ## General context Copyright infringement lawsuits in the generative artificial intelligence sector are on the rise. Content publishers and creators of original works fear that their materials are being used to train artificial intelligence models without adequate compensation, threatening their business models and intellectual property rights.