PANews reported on December 5th that, according to Decrypt, in a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times, a U.S. federal judge has ordered OpenAI to hand over approximately 20 million de-identified ChatGPT user logs to determine whether its output plagiarized The New York Times content. The court deemed the sample size "appropriate for the case," despite OpenAI's attempts to block it on privacy and burden grounds. This ruling will have a profound impact on how AI companies acquire training data, establish content boundaries, and handle copyright issues. OpenAI has objected, requesting the order be overturned.