- OpenAI rejects a demand to provide 20 million private ChatGPT user conversations in an ongoing lawsuit.
- The company claims the request could expose sensitive user data and violate privacy protections.
- The lawsuit centers on alleged copyright infringement of news articles for AI training.
- OpenAI calls the requested data disclosure a risk to common security practices.
OpenAI is contesting a demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations as part of a copyright lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan. According to a recent blog post from OpenAI Chief Information Security Officer Dane Stuckey, the request came from the party that brought the lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023. The suit alleges copyright infringement related to the use of millions of news articles for large language model training, such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat, without permission or compensation.
Stuckey stated the requested user data may include payment details and highly personal content. He described the demand as overly broad and not necessary for the current legal proceedings. “As part of their baseless lawsuit, they’ve demanded the court to force us to hand over 20 million user conversations,” Stuckey explained in the post.
The company emphasized that turning over private chats would threaten user privacy. The blog post stated: “This demand disregards long-standing privacy protections, breaks with common-sense security practices, and would force us to turn over tens of millions of highly personal conversations from people who have no connection to the Times’ baseless lawsuit against OpenAI.”
This is not the first time such a request has been made. OpenAI pointed out a previous push for access to 1.4 billion user conversations, which the company also resisted. As Stuckey stated, “They have tried this before. Originally, the Times wanted you to lose the ability to delete your private chats. We fought that and restored your right to remove them… We pushed back, and we’re pushing back again now.”
The legal dispute represents a significant clash over how Artificial Intelligence companies use online content to train their models, a key issue as generative AI continues to grow in influence.
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