USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today Co., together with several local newspapers it owns, filed suit against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming the company copied hundreds of thousands of articles to train its AI models. Reuters reported the filing earlier. The publisher is seeking damages of more than $250 million.
The suit alleges that OpenAI's unauthorized use of the publisher's content has caused harm to its outlets, describing that harm as real and continuing. The filing does not put a figure on the number of articles beyond the hundreds of thousands cited.
This case joins a growing set of copyright lawsuits against OpenAI. The New York Times has filed one, and the company also faces legal action from The Intercept, Ziff Davis, which owns CNET, and CBC/Radio-Canada, among others. The excerpt also names Encyclopaedia as a plaintiff, though the name is cut off there.
Why it matters: The lawsuit adds to the legal pressure OpenAI faces over how it obtained training data, and it comes from a mainstream publisher with a network of local papers. The outcome could affect what content AI developers can use and how they source it.
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USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI's unauthorized use of […]