Microsoft, OpenAI sued by New York Times over copyright infringement

The New York Times filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies used the Times’ content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without permission, infringing the outlet’s copyrights in the process.

The lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York claims that OpenAI, the maker of generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, and its financial backer Microsoft infringed the Times’ copyrights by building training datasets containing millions of copies of its copyrighted content. The outlet also claims that its copyrights were violated by the output of generative AI tools lik