💼 Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over training data
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train AI models. The publishers say OpenAI also reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries.
Microsoft is named as a co-defendant because Copilot is built on OpenAI's technology. The suit adds to a growing wave of media litigation — previous plaintiffs include The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
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