Court rejects OpenAI’s expansive data request in New York Times copyright lawsuit

A federal district court has rejected as irrelevant a request by OpenAI for documents about the New York Times’ plans for using generative artificial intelligence, with the AI developer seeking to push back on the media company’s claims that OpenAI violated its copyright protections in the training of ChatGPT.

The U.S. district court for southern New York concluded that the “broad scope of document production sought here is simply not relevant to Defendant’s purported fair use defense,” in its ...