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Five Major Canadian Media Firms Sue OpenAI, Seeking Billions Over Copyright Breach

Nov 29, 2024, 03:59 PM

Five major Canadian news media companies, including Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada, have filed a legal action against OpenAI, the $157 billion startup and developer of ChatGPT, alleging that it breached copyright by scraping their content to train its AI products. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI regularly infringed on their copyright and online terms of use by using published media without authorization to develop its AI software. The media organizations are seeking damages that could total billions of dollars. This legal action adds another challenge for OpenAI amid ongoing debates about the ethical use and regulation of artificial intelligence.