Seattle Times and Newsday File Copyright Lawsuit Against Microsoft and OpenAI

Newspapers The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that their content was used without authorization or royalties to train artificial intelligence products.

Allegation of Unauthorized Content Use

Newspapers The Seattle Times and Newsday have taken legal action, stating that tech giants used their journalistic products without permission to train artificial intelligence models.

Training Data and Paywalled Content

The lawsuit claims that the companies gathered hundreds of thousands of articles, including content behind paywalls, and operated products such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot using this data.

Demand for Compensation and Data Destruction

The plaintiff newspapers are demanding financial compensation as well as the destruction of training datasets and artificial intelligence models created using this content.

Company Responses and Statements

A Microsoft spokesperson expressed surprise over the lawsuit, emphasized the value of local journalism, and stated that they are open to discussions. An OpenAI spokesperson defended that the models were trained on publicly available data and fall under fair use.