USA Today Co. and several of its local newspapers have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company used their articles without permission to train its AI models. The suit, filed Thursday, seeks more than $250 million in damages and says OpenAI's unauthorized use has caused continuing harm to the publisher's outlets.
The complaint claims OpenAI's commercial success rests on large-scale copyright infringement, and that it took content to build products worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The lawsuit includes papers such as The Tennessean, Indy Star, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Oklahoman.
This is one of many copyright cases against OpenAI. The New York Times, The Intercept, Ziff Davis, CBC/Radio-Canada, and others have also sued. OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment at the time of reporting.