SOURCE 0 - THE SEARCH THAT WAS ALREADY BUILT

A coalition of news publishers has asked a federal court to sanction OpenAI, alleging the company concealed for two years that it had already built the capability to search its training data and ChatGPT logs, and that it continued deleting logs after being ordered to preserve them. This note examines what the allegation illustrates about verifying a preserving party's own compliance, independently of whether the allegation is proven.