Seattle Times Co. sues Microsoft and OpenAI over AI training with news articles
The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued Microsoft and OpenAI, saying the companies scraped hundreds of thousands of their articles, bypassed paywalls and ignored terms of service to train generative AI models. The complaint asks for financial damages and destruction of any training datasets and models built with the content, and cites examples of ChatGPT reproducing reporting nearly verbatim, including an 88-word excerpt. The suit echoes the New York Times case and comes as OpenAI has struck paid licensing deals with outlets and as a U.S. Justice Department brief sided with Microsoft and OpenAI, raising immediate legal and industry consequences.
Newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI over alleged unauthorized use of articles.
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Several publishers have sued Microsoft and OpenAI over training data. The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday filed a complaint alleging large-scale scraping. The case could lead to court rulings on licensing, data use, and model remedies.
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