NY court orders OpenAI to disclose ~20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs to publisher plaintiffs

In the publisher copyright litigation against OpenAI (including claims by The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune), Judge Sidney H. Stein confirmed an earlier order requiring OpenAI to turn over approximately twenty million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs to plaintiffs' counsel. The plaintiffs seek to use the logs as evidence that ChatGPT regularly reproduces copyrighted content, not only when prompted with deliberate attempts to force reproduction. OpenAI opposed the order as overly burdensome and a privacy risk; the court found anonymization sufficient and the logs' relevance to outweigh the concerns. This is a discovery order; it is not a finding that the logs contain infringement.