8 Major Newspapers Join Copyright Battle Against OpenAI, Microsoft

Published on April 30, 2024

OpenAI and its backer Microsoft have been hit by yet another copyright lawsuit from the journalism industry, this time with eight prominent regional newspapers accusing the ChatGPT developer of illegally using their content to train its artificial intelligence (AI) language models. In a complaint filed Tuesday in New York, the newspaper publishers raised copyrights claims against ChatGPT and Copilot, an AI tool that debuted last February for users of the Windows operating system, the Bing search engine, as well as other Microsoft products. According to the compliant, OpenAI and Microsoft have been “purloining millions of the publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment” to fuel their generative AI software that generated billions of dollars in revenue....

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