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USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
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USA Today and its regional subsidiaries have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI for unauthorized data usage. The publisher seeks over $250 million in damages, alleging the company trained AI models on hundreds of thousands of proprietary articles.
- 01USA Today seeks damages exceeding $250 million for unauthorized training of AI models
- 02Lawsuit claims OpenAI copied hundreds of thousands of proprietary news articles without permission
- 03Legal action includes several local newspaper brands owned by the parent publishing company
- 04The filing marks a significant escalation in intellectual property disputes between publishers and AI developers
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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 […]