News organizations The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the tech giants used copyrighted journalistic content without authorization to train their artificial intelligence models.
The legal complaint warns that generative AI tools could irreparably damage the media industry, describing the technology as a destructive cycle that consumes human-created journalism to produce competing derivative products.
This new legal challenge expands the growing wave of copyright lawsuits facing AI developers, while a Microsoft spokesperson expressed surprise at the action but signaled a willingness to explore potential solutions.
- The Seattle Times and Newsday file a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
- Allegations focus on unauthorized use of journalism for AI training.
- Plaintiffs argue generative AI threatens the future of original reporting.
- Microsoft responds with surprise while remaining open to dialogue.
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