Seattle Times, Newsday Seek Destruction of AI Models in OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Suit
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Updated · The Verge · Sep 6
Seattle Times, Newsday Seek Destruction of AI Models in OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Suit
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Sep 6
Summary
Seattle Times and Newsday asked a court to destroy any AI models, training datasets and retained copies of their work that allegedly incorporate their journalism.
The publishers say OpenAI used their reporting without permission to train models and that its tools can reproduce passages in response to user queries; Microsoft was named because Copilot relies on OpenAI technology.
Nearly 400 local newspapers have recently brought similar claims against OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing chatbots divert readers and subscription revenue from news sites.
The case adds to earlier lawsuits from The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica, widening the copyright fight over AI training data.