OpenAI在与纽约时报等媒体的AI训练数据诉讼中意外删除了关键证据。这些媒体花费超过150小时搜索OpenAI的AI训练数据，寻找其新闻文章的使用情况。OpenAI承认错误并尝试恢复数据，但恢复的数据不完整且不可靠，无法追踪新闻文章在构建AI模型中的使用方式。纽约时报起诉OpenAI，指控其未经授权复制其文章用于构建AI工具，并索赔数十亿美元损失。OpenAI与部分媒体达成合作协议，而纽约时报则坚持诉讼。

🤔OpenAI工程师在与纽约时报等媒体的诉讼中，意外删除了关键证据，这些证据是媒体团队花费150多个小时搜索OpenAI的AI训练数据而获得的。

📰纽约时报等媒体起诉OpenAI，声称OpenAI和微软未经授权复制了其新闻文章，用于构建AI模型，并因此与他们的内容直接竞争，并索赔数十亿美元损失。

💰纽约时报已花费超过100万美元与OpenAI打官司，而OpenAI则与其他一些出版商达成合作协议，例如Axel Springer、Conde Nast和Vox Media。

🚨OpenAI表示对媒体的描述有异议，并即将提交自己的回复。

⚠️OpenAI意外删除数据的事件，引发了关于AI模型训练数据来源及版权问题的关注。

In a stunning misstep, OpenAI engineers accidentally erased critical evidence gathered by The New York Times and other major newspapers in their lawsuit over AI training data, according to a court filing Wednesday.

The newspapers’ legal teams had spent over 150 hours searching through OpenAI’s AI training data to find instances where their news articles were included, the filing claims. But it doesn’t explain how this mistake occurred or what precisely the data included. While the filing says OpenAI admitted to the error and tried to recover the data, what it managed to salvage was incomplete and unreliable — so what was recovered cannot help properly trace how the news organizations’ articles were used in building OpenAI’s AI models. While OpenAI’s lawyers characterized the data erasure as a “glitch,” The New York Times’ attorneys noted they had “no reason to believe” it was intentional.

The New York Times Company launched this landmark battle last December, claiming OpenAI and its partner Microsoft had built their AI tools by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result. The publication is asking for OpenAI to be held liable for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” for allegedly copying its works.

The Times has already spent more than $1 million battling OpenAI in court — a significant fee few publishers can match. Meanwhile, OpenAI has struck deals with major outlets like Axel Springer, Conde Nast, and The Verge’s parent company Vox Media, suggesting many publishers would rather partner than fight.

OpenAI declined to join The New York Times in filing the update to the court. This declaration was filed by Jennifer Maisel, an attorney representing the news organizations, to formally notify the court about what happened.

In an email to The Verge, OpenAI spokesperson Jason Deutrom said that the company disagrees with the characterizations made, and will file its own response soon. The New York Times declined The Verge’s request for comment.