this openai court story is starting to look ugly

i saw this and honestly this one feel like big mess. nyt and other news people saying openai told court for long time it cannot search training data / logs for their copyrighted stuff. but then looks like maybe they already did searches before, and also billions of chat logs were deleted or made not searchable. link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/ i know people will say nyt just want money and hate ai. maybe true also. but still, if company say “we cannot search this” and later it comes out “actually yes we did search this before”, then that is not small thing. this is the part of ai nobody want talk about much. everyone say open, safe, trust, future, bla bla. but when court ask simple thing, suddenly data is impossible to find, impossible to search, privacy issue, too hard, too expensive. and maybe privacy is real concern, yes. i dont want random lawyers digging people chats. but also dont tell court one thing if inside company you already know different thing. for me this is why ai companies need more boring adult supervision. not because ai bad. because if the data is the whole product, then hiding how data was used become the whole game. what do people think. is this nyt playing legal games, or openai got caught doing the same silicon valley “oops technically we could but we said we couldnt” bs thing?