OpenAI Accidentally Deletes Crucial Data in NY Times Copyright Lawsuit

• OpenAI engineers inadvertently erased data relevant to a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times and Daily News.
• The publishers' search data on one of the virtual machines provided by OpenAI was deleted, making it impossible to determine where their copyrighted articles were used in OpenAI's models.
• Despite no evidence of intentional deletion, the incident highlights OpenAI's responsibility to search its own datasets for potentially infringing content.

Source: Techcrunch