OpenAI seeks court order revisions to restrict data access in New York Times lawsuit

Tech leader OpenAI is asking a federal district court to revise a previous order to allow the company to take data management actions that would in effect delete information sought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs, in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit.

“To be clear, compliance is not a switchflip: OpenAI’s data infrastructure is complex and retaining data that is otherwise slated for deletion requires significant engineering work, infrastructure changes, and compute resources,” OpenAI argues in a...