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Nearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft.
The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal battle adds to the string of copyright lawsuits OpenAI is facing from publishers like The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
TL;DR
- Nearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft.
- The publishers allege their work was used without permission or compensation.
- The content was allegedly used to train AI models.
- This lawsuit is another in a series of copyright challenges faced by OpenAI.