Court rejects plaintiffs’ request for OpenAI documents in copyright lawsuit

The U.S. district court for northern California rejected a request by class-action plaintiffs for OpenAI documents on the training of its generative AI models, which plaintiffs in a separate but similar lawsuit were given by a New York federal court.

“The court agrees with Defendants that Plaintiffs have not identified or described what, if any, documents are missing here, but that were produced in Authors Guild. This failure to identify or describe the allegedly missing discovery that Plaintiffs wish to...