New York Daily News: The Denver Post, The New York Times and other media outlets are asking for “serious sanctions” against OpenAI, saying the company destroyed evidence and intentionally hid its ability to locate stolen news stories in training data and responses to ChatGPT users, according to a new motion filed Thursday.

The motion, filed in Manhattan Federal Court as part of an ongoing copyright infringement suit, said Open AI expert John Vincent “Vinnie” Monaco “finally revealed” in an April deposition that the company had engaged in a campaign of deception throughout the lawsuit, including by severely misrepresenting technological capabilities and destroying millions of chat histories.

What precise admissions Monaco made were redacted from Thursday’s filing. But lawyers said the disclosure upended the company’s repeated claims — to both the news organizations and the court — that OpenAI was unable to search its datasets for instances of stolen journalism. OpenAI’s alleged theft and reproduction of journalists’ work is central to the lawsuit, which also names Microsoft as a defendant.

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