The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal battle adds to the string of copyright lawsuits OpenAI is facing from publishers like The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica. [Link: OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping News Articles | https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use | Bloomberg Law]

The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal…

Publishers owning 400 newspapers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized use of their articles to develop AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot.