USA TODAY Co. sues OpenAI over training on 19 publications

On October 8, USA TODAY Co. and several newspapers it owns filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, alleging that OpenAI copied hundreds of thousands of articles and other materials to train ChatGPT without permission. The complaint seeks more than $250 million in damages and a court order blocking the alleged infringement. The suit names work from 19 publications, including USA TODAY, The Tennessean, the Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis Star, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The plaintiffs argue that ChatGPT can reproduce or summarize articles in ways that substitute for readers visiting the original publications. OpenAI has not commented, but it has previously argued that training models on publicly available internet material is fair use. The case adds to a growing set of copyright disputes over AI training and tests whether public availability on the internet gives an AI developer permission to use journalism in model training.

(Source：RuntimeWire)