The New York Times and the Daily News, which previously sued OpenAI over the use of its materials to train AI models, said the company’s developers accidentally deleted data that was relevant to the case. TechCrunch writes about this.
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In early November, OpenAI provided the publications’ lawyers with two virtual machines (software environments that run like a computer within a computer) so they could examine the data the company used to train its models.
However, according to a letter sent by lawyers to the District Court for the Southern District of New York, on November 14, OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted all data on one of the virtual machines. They were partially restored, but the folder structure and names were “irretrievably” lost, and from the remaining data it is impossible to determine whether the items were used to train the AI.
The plaintiffs noted that they have no reason to believe that the data was intentionally deleted. However, the incident suggests that OpenAI itself is in the best position to look for potentially infringing content, the letter says. The company declined to comment.
OpenAI representatives have repeatedly stated that the company trained models with data that is publicly available. At the same time, the ChatGPT developer neither confirmed nor denied accusations of training AI on copyrighted objects without the permission of their creators, writes TechCrunch.
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