GoKawiilSeattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training data
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies scraped their copyrighted articles, bypassing paywalls, to train generative AI models. The publishers claim this practice has hurt their revenue by diverting readers to AI-generated summaries and has produced false information wrongly attributed to their outlets.
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This case adds to a growing wave of litigation, following the New York Times and CNN, that could reshape how AI companies license or pay for training data drawn from journalism. The outcome may determine whether news publishers can demand compensation or restrict AI firms from using their content, directly affecting the economics of both industries.
- Two more publishers join a growing list suing OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training practices.
- The suit alleges paywall bypassing, revenue loss, and AI-generated misinformation attributed to the outlets.
- Some publishers like AP and Vox have instead struck licensing deals with OpenAI rather than litigating.
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