Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
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- The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user…
- This is similar to lawsuits filed by The New York Times , Ziff Davis , Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica against OpenAI.
- The Seattle Times and Newsday also named Microsoft as a defendant in the suit, since Copilot is built on OpenAI's technology.
- The publishers join a list of nearly 400 local newspapers that recently sued the two … Read the full story at The Verge.
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The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica against OpenAI.
The Seattle Times and Newsday also named Microsoft as a defendant in the suit, since Copilot is built on OpenAI's technology. The publishers join a list of nearly 400 local newspapers that recently sued the two …
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