USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today and several local newspapers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking over $250 million in damages for alleged copyright infringement. The publishers claim their content was used to train AI models without authorization.
Why it matters
This lawsuit adds to a growing wave of legal challenges from media organizations against AI companies regarding intellectual property rights and training data usage.
USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied “hundreds of thousands” of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI’s unauthorized use of its content “has done real and continuing” harm to its outlets.
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