Archive · 13 Nov 2025
OpenAI Fights Court Order to Share ChatGPT Conversations with New York Times
Imagine you have a super smart talking robot, like ChatGPT.
Someone is suing the company that made the robot because they think the robot learned by reading their books without asking.
The court ordered the company to give the robot's entire conversations with people to the person suing them.
But the company is saying, 'Whoa, that's too much!
It's like giving away everyone's private diaries!'
They worry that people's secrets will be shared with strangers.
The person suing says it's okay and the company can hide people's names.
The company doesn't think that's enough protection and has offered a smaller way to find the information.
They are trying to avoid giving away all those private chats.
OpenAI is refusing a court order to share 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs with The New York Times.
The company argues the demand is an overreach and a violation of user privacy.
The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging unauthorized use of its articles to train ChatGPT.
OpenAI claims that most of the requested data is irrelevant to the lawsuit.
A federal magistrate judge ruled in favor of The Times, stating privacy safeguards are sufficient, but OpenAI has proposed alternatives that The Times rejected.
- Who
- OpenAI and The New York Times
- What
- OpenAI is challenging a court order to provide 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs to The New York Times as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit.
- When
- The court ordered OpenAI to submit the logs by November 14, 2025.
- Where
- Federal Court
- Why
- The New York Times is suing OpenAI for allegedly using its articles without permission to train ChatGPT. The Times seeks the conversation logs as evidence.
- Company
- OpenAI
- Product
- ChatGPT
- Court Order Deadline
- November 14, 2025
- Number of Conversations Requested
- 20 million