New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

The New York Times and The Daily News filed a sanctions motion, accusing OpenAI of lying about its inability to search training data and chat logs for copyrighted material. OpenAI had claimed such searches were technically infeasible, but the publishers say internal tools and datasets exist that can do exactly that. The court has not ruled yet; OpenAI's response is not in the article.

Why it matters: NYT filed a sanctions motion alleging OpenAI hid internal tools capable of searching training data, directly undercutting OpenAI's core defense that such searches were technically infeasible. All three HKR axes hit: strong conflict, concrete evidence, high industry resonance. ...