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IGN and CNET owner Ziff Davis sues OpenAI

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IGN and CNET owner Ziff Davis sues OpenAI

TL;DR

  • Ziff Davis, owner of CNET, PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health, is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
  • The company alleges OpenAI intentionally copied and reproduced millions of its articles without permission.
  • Ziff Davis claims OpenAI trained its AI models on its work despite explicit instructions not to scrape data.
  • The lawsuit also states that OpenAI allegedly removed copyright information from the scraped content.
  • Ziff Davis seeks to stop OpenAI from using its content and to destroy datasets containing it.
  • OpenAI defends its practices, stating its models are trained on publicly available data and grounded in fair use.