US newspapers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

Major US newspapers have filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing them of using their materials to train generative artificial intelligence systems.

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Eight newspapers owned by investment company Alden Global, including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, filed a lawsuit claiming that tech companies copied millions of their articles to train AI.

Earlier, Microsoft and OpenAI have already been sued by several media outlets: The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet. An OpenAI spokesperson said that the company is "very careful about our products and development process to support news organisations". A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on the complaint.

"The Newspaper Cases are among several landmark lawsuits filed by various authors against tech companies and their AI generative systems.

Source: Reuters