12/02/2024

Canadian News Publishers Sue OpenAI

They allege copyright infringement

A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.

The outlets said in a joint statement on Friday that OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media.

"OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners," the statement said.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Associated Press.