The deletion of the data, which included the lawyers' programs and search results, was reportedly accidental and some of it has been recovered, but not the file structure or file names, rendering it essentially useless. The lawyers are now asking the judge to have OpenAI repeat their searches to avoid redoing their costly work. OpenAI has not yet commented on the situation.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times and other newspapers are in a legal battle with OpenAI, accusing it of using their articles for training and violating their copyrights.
- As part of the discovery process, lawyers for the newspapers have been inspecting OpenAI's training data.
- OpenAI accidentally deleted the work of the lawyers, including their programs and search result data stored on a dedicated virtual machine.
- The newspapers' lawyers are asking the judge to have OpenAI repeat their searches to avoid redoing their costly work.