The Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Copyright Infringement

Summary

It was reported that on September 4, The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the two companies of copying their news articles without permission to train AI systems. The lawsuit claims that AI products can reproduce article passages, summarize articles, and provide answers, reducing the need for users to visit their websites or purchase subscriptions. The plaintiffs seek a court order to destroy copies of their works and the training datasets or AI models containing them.