** OpenAI faces criticism after accidentally deleting data in NY Times copyright lawsuit. The company's engineers erased search data stored on a virtual machine, which may have been relevant to the case. However, OpenAI claims the deletion was due to a system misconfiguration requested by the plaintiffs.

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Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/openai-accidentally-deleted-potential-evidence-in-ny-times-copyright-lawsuit/