Since November 1, 2024, the News Plaintiffs have spent over 150 person-hours searching OpenAI's training data for instances of the News Plaintiff's Asserted Works. The News Plaintiffs stored the results of their searches on two dedicated virtual machines provided by OpenAI.
On November 14, 2024, the News Plaintiffs learned OpenAI's engineers erased all of the News Plaintiff's programs and search result data that was stored on one of the dedicated virtual machines.
OpenAI had been able to recover some of the data, but not the file structure or file names, which lawyers said made it essentially useless.
A lawyer for the newspapers said that they 'have no reason to believe' the deletion was intentional.
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