8 U.S. Dailies Sue OpenAI And Microsoft Over AI

A group of eight US newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in a New York federal court. I Photo: Neerav Bhatt Flickr

The New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in a New York federal court.

The other newspapers that are part of the lawsuit are MediaNews Group’s Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register, and St. Paul Pioneer-Press, as well as Tribune Publishing’s Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel.

All of the newspapers are owned by Alden Global Capital, as reported by The Guardian.

“We’ve spent billions of dollars gathering information and reporting news at our publications, and we can’t allow OpenAI and Microsoft to expand the Big Tech playbook of stealing our work to build their own businesses at our expense,” said a written statement from Frank Pine, executive editor for the MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing.

In December, The New York Times sued both OpenAI and Microsoft on similar grounds, alleging that the creation and training of ChatGPT involved the illegal use of copyrighted material.

The Times stated that the tech companies’ product “threatens the Times’s ability to provide that service.”