The head of product of ChatGPT will testify in the case of the American government against Google

The US government wants to show that Google’s competitors face overwhelming barriers to entry as part of its antitrust case against the tech giant. So he turns to ChaptGPT’s product manager, Nick Turley, to testify as a witness in the hope that it will help strengthen his case.

In a reference point reign last Augusta court determined that Google has a monopoly in search. While Google is appealing this decision, the Department of Justice is now asking the court to decide what penalties it should face, such as spinning off Chrome or a 10-year ban on the release of any browser product.

To strengthen its case, the DOJ brought in various Google competitors such as OpenAI, Microsoft and Perplexity. It takes specific leaders, as the Chief Business Officer of PerplexityDmitry Shevelenko, to testify. (It’s also unclear whether Shevelenko will do so. Perplexity did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Recent legal documents confirm that an executive of OpenAI, Nick Turley, head of product for ChatGPT, will testify as a witness for the case of the US government.

“Mr. Turley is a witness chosen by the Plaintiffs (the DOJ) to testify on behalf of OpenAI,” Google’s lawyers wrote in a January 16. legal deposit.

“Mr. Turley is the OpenAI witness who will testify on behalf of the government at the evidentiary hearing.” another archive from January 16 read.

None of the filings specify exactly when Turley will testify. Turley is expected to be asked by the United States about “the relationship of generative AI to Research Access Points, distribution, barriers to entry and expansion, and data sharing.” for the file. The DOJ has not provided details on what it wants to ask Turley about. (These are exactly the same topics he wants to ask Perplexity’s CBO approx.)

The DOJ uses the term “search hotspots” to refer to products like Google Chrome that people use to search the web. Specifically, in October 2024 ChatGPT has been launched its own AI search browser.

In preparation for Turley’s testimony, Google subpoenaed OpenAI for documents related to the case. But the two companies are now in a heated dispute over the extent of evidence that OpenAI should provide.

In a legal file on January 16, Google criticized OpenAI for producing “incredibly few documents”. OpenAI’s lawyers responded, noting that Google’s requests for documents from top executives such as CEO Sam Altman appeared to be a “Trojan horse intended to harass OpenAI executives.”

OpenAI has agreed to share some documents from Turley’s working files on OpenAI’s strategy on AI products, its integration of AI into research products, and its Microsoft collaboration, a letter from OpenAI attorneys’ samples.

Google says it needs more documents from more executives, as relying especially on Turley would “harm Google” since Turley is a “hand-picked” witness by the US government, according to it. filing.

Google also wants documents from OpenAI that precede the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, pretending these “may undermine Mr. Turley’s testimony regarding barriers to entry in a way that the post-release documents did not.” But OpenAI says the papers that old “may not meaningfully represent” the current AI landscape.

The two sides appear at an impasse and OpenAI has asked the court to refuse to complete the evidence requested by Google.

OpenAI and Google did not respond to requests for comment. The DOJ declined to comment.