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Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft
Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft. The newspapers, based in Seattle and Long Island, New York, said the companies’ AI products can reproduce passages from their reporting. The lawsuit echoes a case filed by the New York Times. in 2023, which accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot.
Why it matters. This lawsuit highlights the growing legal battles between publishers and tech companies over the unauthorized use of copyrighted journalism to train and operate artificial intelligence models.
- The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
- The newspapers allege that AI products reproduce copyrighted passages from their reporting.
- The legal action mirrors a similar 2023 copyright lawsuit filed by the New York Times.
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