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The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their journalism was used without permission to train AI models and is often reproduced verbatim in chatbot responses. Microsoft was named as a defendant because its Copilot tool relies on OpenAI's technology, and the outlets are seeking destruction of any copied works, datasets, and models built from them.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The suit claims these tools consume original reporting and generate imitative outputs that could financially undermine the news organizations that created the source material.
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.