According to ChainCatcher, U.S. Federal Judge Ona T. Wang rejected OpenAI's request to limit evidence disclosure, ordering it to provide approximately 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user conversation records to The New York Times.
The court found that this data is crucial for proving whether ChatGPT copied content protected by copyright from The New York Times and is 'proportional to the needs of the case.' Although OpenAI expressed concerns about user privacy, the judge noted that privacy considerations are only one factor in the proportionality analysis and cannot dominate.