When The AI Product Becomes The Evidence

The evidence you need from an AI company might not be emails, chats, or a handful of prompt screenshots. It might be the machinery behind the product: the retrieval index, the operational database, and the logs that capture every interaction at scale. That shift changes what you ask for, how you scope it, and how you argue proportionality when the data volumes get huge. We walk through Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster v Perplexity AI, a Southern District of New York decision...