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Court orderMay 13, 2025In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (New York Times v. Microsoft) · S.D.N.Y., No. 1:25-md-03143 (MDL); No. 1:23-cv-11195

Magistrate Judge Wang orders OpenAI to preserve and segregate all ChatGPT output logs it would otherwise delete, including those users asked to erase

On May 13, 2025, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang directed OpenAI to "preserve and segregate all output log data" that would otherwise be deleted, on a going-forward basis until further order, whether the deletion would be at a user's request or under privacy laws OpenAI said required it. The two-page order recounts that the News plaintiffs first raised OpenAI's deletion of logs in January 2025, that the court then declined a wholesale preservation order but asked whether deletion-requested data could be segregated or anonymized, and that OpenAI's later letters did not say whether it would preserve such data without an order. The court noted the plaintiffs' letter suggested the volume of deleted conversations was significant. According to Loeb & Loeb, Judge Wang declined to vacate the order on May 16, 2025. The preservation fight was followed by the dispute over production of a 20 million-conversation sample, decided by Judge Wang in November 2025 and affirmed by Judge Stein on Jan. 5, 2026.

Order, No. 1:23-cv-11195, Dkt. 551 (Justia) ↗Loeb & Loeb summary of the May 13 and May 16, 2025 orders ↗

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