OpenAI Against New York Times To Keep ChatGPT Secrets!

JAKARTA - OpenAI has filed an appeal against a court order in a copyright case filed by The New York Times (NYT), which requires companies to save ChatGPT output data indefinitely. OpenAI considers the order to be contrary to the privacy commitments that have been promised to its users.

The order was issued last month by the court after NYT requested that all ChatGPT output log data be maintained and specifically separated. In court documents dated June 3, OpenAI officially asked US District Judge Sidney Stein to cancel the order.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his objection through an upload on platform X on Thursday night: "We will fight any request that sacrifices the privacy of our users; this is our core principle. We consider this [NYT] request inappropriate and creates a bad precedent."

The New York Times declined to comment on this appeal.

The lawsuit filed by NYT in 2023 against OpenAI and Microsoft alleges the two companies have used millions of NYT articles without permission as part of training data to develop a large language model (LLM) behind ChatGPT.

In its April 2025 ruling, Judge Stein stated that NYT had submitted a strong enough argument that OpenAI and Microsoft could be responsible for encouraging users to violate NYT's copyright.

He also emphasized that the ChatGPT examples that display content from the NYT article are directly many of which have been published are sufficient to allow this lawsuit to continue to the next stage.

This problem is one of the important cases in legal debates about the use of copyrighted material by artificial intelligence technology. The results can ultimately form a legal direction for other AI companies in handling user training and privacy data.

While OpenAI claims privacy protection as a priority, NYT argues that copyright infringement of journalists and news institutions cannot be ignored, especially if it is used commercially without compensation or permission.