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Magistrate Judge Wang rules v. OpenAI again, holding waived attorney-client privilege re: deletion of Books1, Books2 datasets. Cold comfort to OpenAI: Judge finds no crime-fraud exception applies.
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang rules v. OpenAI again, holding waived attorney-client privilege re: deletion of Books1, Books2 datasets. Cold comfort to OpenAI: Judge finds no crime-fraud exception applies.Add another major discovery loss to OpenAI before Magistrate Judge Wang. This one of the biggest. Judge Wang just issued an opinion finding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to communications related to OpenAI’s deletion of the Books1 and Books2 datasets. OpenAI’s attorneys get to be deposed regarding their communications. Oh boy. Cold comfort:…
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Magistrate Judge Wang sticks to her order to OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified consumer ChatGPT logs. But Judge is entertaining reconsideration.
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang sticks to her order to OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified consumer ChatGPT logs. But Judge is entertaining reconsideration.The controversial order of Magistrate Judge Ona Wang for OpenAI to produce 20 million de-identified consumer ChatGPT logs (or chats) continues in inflame OpenAI. Dane Stuckey, chief information security office, wrote a scathing criticism of the order as an invasion of privacy. Then, on Nov. 12, OpenAI filed a letter asking Judge Wang to reconsider.…
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OpenAI agrees to more limited preservation order to keep output logs of accounts associated with certain websites
Read more: OpenAI agrees to more limited preservation order to keep output logs of accounts associated with certain websitesOpenAI has agreed to a stipulated preservation order of output logs of users for ChatGPT associated with certain websites in Appendix A below. It looks these websites are copy-pasta news sites that are re–publishing news articles from other sources. DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.
Read more: OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.At a hearing yesterday, Judge Sidney Stein ruled against OpenAI in its attempt to overturn Magistrate Judge Ona Wang’s order that OpenAI preserve all ChatGPT user logs due to the New York Times’ motion that suggested some users might be engaging and concealing copyright infringement and generating infringing news articles with ChatGPT. (Maybe this is…
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Judge Stein orders OpenAI cases to magistrate judge
Read more: Judge Stein orders OpenAI cases to magistrate judgeLast week, in the In re ChatGPT Copyright Infringement Litigation, Judge Stein ordered all the cases against OpenAI and Microsoft to a magistrate judge. Presumably, it’s Magistrate Judge Wang, who is already overseeing discovery in the newspaper and books cases in the Southern District of New York–and doing incredible work.
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Motion to compel suit to depose nonparties Benjamin Mann, Dario Amodei is now related case to In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation
Read more: Motion to compel suit to depose nonparties Benjamin Mann, Dario Amodei is now related case to In re OpenAI ChatGPT LitigationJudge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has deemed the Authors Guild’ suit to compel the nonparties Benjamin Man and Dario Amodei, both co-founders of Anthropic, is a related case to the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation over which she presides. More on the wranglings over the deposition from TechCrunch.
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OpenAI ordered to turn over “English Colang Dataset” to book authors in Tremblay case
Read more: OpenAI ordered to turn over “English Colang Dataset” to book authors in Tremblay caseIn the Tremblay v. OpenAI case, Magistrate Judge Illman granted the book authors’ request to compel OpenAI to turn over one of the datasets that it used: “English Colang Dataset.” It apparently was difficult to navigate under the data-inspection rules set for discovery by agreement of the parties, as reported by Aruni Soni of Bloomberg…
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Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of Anthropic
Read more: Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of AnthropicMagistrate Judge Illman wants the parties to meet and confer to resolve the dispute raised by non-party Robert Mann, whom the plaintiffs subpoenaed for a deposition: ORDER re 248 MOTION to Quash Plaintiffs’ Third-Party Deposition Subpoena or, in the Alternative, for a Protective Order filed by Benjamin J. Mann. All discovery disputes in this case…
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Parties dispute scope of discovery of OpenAI’s developing models
Read more: Parties dispute scope of discovery of OpenAI’s developing modelsThe parties in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation, consolidated cases brought by book authors, are fighting over the scope of documents discovery request — how much discovery should OpenAI be required to produce related to their in-development models. OpenAI has offered to produce documents related to in-development GPT models. The Plaintiffs want more information…