OpenAI可能在与纽约时报的版权诉讼中意外删除了重要数据。纽约时报及其联合原告每日新闻的律师致函法官，称OpenAI提供的虚拟机上存储的专家和律师一周的工作成果被意外删除。该诉讼的核心是纽约时报指控OpenAI和微软未经授权使用其付费内容训练AI模型。OpenAI否认了这一指控，称其模型使用的是公开数据。虽然OpenAI已恢复大部分数据，但文件结构和文件名无法恢复，导致数据无法使用。这起事件凸显了AI模型训练数据透明度和版权保护的重要性，也可能对OpenAI与其他媒体公司达成的授权协议产生影响。

🤔OpenAI在与纽约时报的版权诉讼中，意外删除了原告律师一周的工作成果，这些数据存储在OpenAI提供的虚拟机上。

📰纽约时报指控OpenAI和微软未经授权使用其付费内容训练AI模型，并提供了ChatGPT回复中存在“几乎逐字复制”的证据。

🛡️OpenAI否认指控，称其模型使用的是公开数据，符合版权法中的合理使用原则。但数据删除事件可能削弱其辩护，因为其拒绝公开训练数据细节。

🔄虽然OpenAI已恢复大部分数据，但文件结构和文件名无法恢复，导致数据无法使用，原告律师不得不重新开始收集证据。

💰OpenAI已与多家媒体公司达成授权协议，使用其内容训练模型并提供带引用的ChatGPT回复，例如与Dotdash Meredith签订的每年1600万美元的协议。

OpenAI may have accidentally deleted important data related to its ongoing copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times.

First reported by TechCrunch, counsel for the Times and its co-plaintiff Daily News sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, detailing how "an entire week’s worth of its experts' and lawyers' work" was "irretrievably lost." OpenAI had provided the plaintiffs with two dedicated virtual machines for researching alleged instances of copyright infringement. According to the letter, on Nov. 14, "programs and search result data stored on one of the dedicated virtual machines was erased by OpenAI engineers."

The Times has accused OpenAI, and Microsoft which uses OpenAI's models for its Bing AI chatbot, of copyright infringement by training its models on paywalled and unauthorized content. The lawsuit detailed multiple instances of "near-verbatim" copy in ChatGPT responses. OpenAI has refuted this claim, saying their models were trained on publicly available data, and therefore fair use under copyright laws. The case hinges on the Times being able to prove that OpenAI's models copied and used its content without compensation or credit.

OpenAI was able to recover most of the erased data, but the "folder structure and file names" of the work was unrecoverable, rendering the data unusable. Now, the plaintiffs' counsel must start their evidence gathering from scratch. In the letter, counsel affirmed that there's "no reason to believe [the erasure] was intentional," but also pointed out how "OpenAI is in the best position to search its own datasets." The AI company has avoided sharing any detail about its training data.

Other similar copyright claims have been filed against OpenAI. But a lawsuit from Raw Story and AlterNet was recently dismissed because the plaintiffs could not prove enough harm to support their claims. Meanwhile, OpenAI has struck licensing deals with several media companies, to use their work for training and providing ChatGPT responses with citations. Recently, Adweek reported that OpenAI is paying publishing giant Dotdash Meredith at least $16 million a year to license its content.