OpenAI Faces Court Order to Disclose 20 Million Anonymized ChatGPT Chats

OpenAI, a company that is pushing to redefine how courts balance innovation, privacy, and the enforcement of copyright in the current legal battle over artificial intelligence and intellectual property, has brought a lawsuit challenging a sweeping discovery order. 

It was announced on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence company requested a federal judge to overturn a ruling that requires it to disclose 20 million anonymized ChatGPT conversation logs, warning even de-identified records may reveal sensitive information about users. 

In the current dispute, the New York Times and several other news organizations have filed a lawsuit alleging that OpenAI is violating copyright terms in its large language models by illegally using their content. The claim is that OpenAI has violated its copyright rights by using their copyrighted content. 

A federal district court in New York upheld two discovery orders on January 5, 2026 that required OpenAI to produce a substantial sample of the interactions with ChatGPT by the end of the year, a consequential milestone in an ongoing litigation that is situated at the intersection of copyright law, data privacy, and the emergence of artificial intelligence. 

According to the court’s decision, this case concludes that there is a growing wil

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