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How's that NYTimes vs OpenAI lawsuit going? Last I can find is things are hung up in discovery: OpenAI has requested potentially a century of NYTimes reporters' notes.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openais-aggressive-cour...

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Half a century worth of reporters’ notes might be some valuable training data.

> The AI company asked Judge Sidney H. Stein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to step in and compel the Times to produce reporters’ notes, interview memos, and other materials for each of the roughly 10 million contested articles the publication alleges were illegally plugged into the company’s AI models. OpenAI said it needs the material to suss out the copyrightability of the articles. The Times quickly fired back, calling the request absurd.

Can any lawyer on here defend OpenAI's request? Or is the article not characterizing it well in the quote?

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