According to TechCrunch AI, the Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was used without authorization to train artificial intelligence models. The two publications join a growing number of news organizations taking legal action against the tech companies.
The lawsuit centers on claims that OpenAI and Microsoft used the news organizations’ copyrighted content to develop and train their AI systems without permission or compensation. This legal action continues a trend of media companies challenging major AI developers over the use of their intellectual property in training large language models.
The case adds to mounting legal pressure facing OpenAI and Microsoft from the publishing industry, as news organizations increasingly scrutinize how their content is being utilized in the development of generative AI technologies. Both the Seattle Times and Newsday are established regional news publications with substantial archives of journalism that could potentially have been incorporated into training datasets.