Secure All Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but only in a performatively locked down room. As The Hollywood Reporter reveals, lawyers for authors Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Paul Tremblay announced in a new court filing this week that they have reached an agreement with OpenAI that will allow the writers’ representatives to view the company’s training data trove. This is, notably, the first time OpenAI has allowed an outside party to view its training data, and there are some major caveats. As the report explains, the training data can only be viewed in a “secure” room at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters on a locked down computer that does not have access to the internet or any shared networks. No outside electronics will be allowed into the room, and although the reps may be allowed to take notes, making copies of any portion of the data is strictly forbidden — a wild request, we should note, since it’s all material created by the public in the first place. Whoever views the datasets, which were not given a size estimate but are undeniably massive, will be required to provide identification, give their name in a visitor’s log, and sign a non-disclosure agreement, the report adds. Head Case These stipulations, which sound more like the protocols for viewing state secrets than looking at a bunch of AI training data, are the latest forte in the protracted battle between these authors and…Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room