Judge Seeks to Allay OpenAI Privacy Concerns in Copyright Case

A federal magistrate judge attempted to assuage concerns about user privacy stemming from her order that OpenAI Inc. preserve all of its AI model’s inputs and outputs, repeatedly telling the company and the plaintiffs suing it for copyright infringement that the order isn’t permanent.

In response to OpenAI’s argument that the preservation order is “sweeping” and “invasive,” Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang repeated during a Tuesday status conference that the user data wouldn’t be made public. She told OpenAI to point to her statements from the hearing’s transcript to mitigate any customer concerns.

“This preservation order is also not forever ...