Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
· Source: The Verge AI
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the artificial‑intelligence company infringes copyright by using their articles as training data without permission. The complaint claims that OpenAI’s models reproduce excerpts from both papers whenever users ask related questions, amounting to unauthorized copying of journalistic content. Microsoft is also named in the suit because its Copilot tool is built on OpenAI technology. This filing joins a wave of similar lawsuits brought by other media outlets—including The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam‑Webster, and Encyclopædia Britannica—and is part of a broader movement in which roughly 400 local newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged copyright violations.
The dispute underscores the growing friction between the media industry and AI providers over the use of protected material to train algorithms. How these cases are resolved could set legal limits on language‑model training and shape how AI platforms access published information. The outcome will also have implications for protecting content creators’ rights in the digital age.
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