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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA DIVISION 7 In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation Case No. 23-cv-03223-AMO (RMI)

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE

10 Re: Dkt. No. 136 11

13 Now pending before the court is a jointly-filed letter brief setting forth a dispute regarding Plaintiffs’ Interrogatory (“ROG”) Nos. 12 and 14. (see dkt. 136). The court concludes that pursuant to Civil Local R. 7-1(b), these matters are suitable for disposition without oral argument. Plaintiffs, a group of authors who hold registered copyrights in their works, bring this putative class action against a group of defendants that they collectively refer to OpenAI. See First Amend. Consol. Compl. (“FAC”) (dkt. 120) at 2. ChatGPT is a software product created, maintained, and sold by OpenAI, and is powered by two AI software programs called GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, which are also known as “large language models.” Id. Plaintiffs allege that “[r]ather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is ‘trained’ by copying …