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Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement
A coalition of nearly 400 newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly scraping their content without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, claiming copyright infringement and harm to local journalism. The publishers allege the companies systematically copied and stripped copyright information from articles, including those behind paywalls, to develop their AI products.
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